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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Why don’t police have rules of engagement?
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Er... because what's at stake in opening fire on another country's military forces without provocation is that you start a war? That's the outcome those rules are attempting to prevent... They're not there to save the lives of people in an opposing military force.
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I’m legit ignorant here but don’t I see military movies all the time with the all important “rules of engagement”? Don’t fire unless fired upon?
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I think this whole discussion would work a lot better if peoples' intuitions weren't so heavily derived from movies.