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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
Can I ask what the ratio is?
If we have a violent insurgent and on innocent person, it's okay to kill both of them to get the insurgent.
What if you have 1 insurgent and 2 innocent people?
1 to 10?
1 to 100?
What is an "acceptable loss of innocent life"?
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I'd love to be able to answer that question, but I don't think there is an answer. The boiler plate answer is zero.
But the romantized notion of warfare that was so tightly attached to WW2 and to an extent Korea is so different and so twisted.
It used to be that the loss of an innocent is just not acceptable, it happens you try to fix it, but you try to do your best.
Has become a nebulous mess because we're no long fighting nation states in uniforms with a clear strategy and mandate. We're fighting a shadow enemy that hides among civilians wears their clothes and snipes from a distance, then blends back in.
You hope your intelligence is right, you pray that your seeing the right thing.
But its just going to happen, and there's no longer a ratio of right and wrong.