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08-18-2009, 06:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire View Post
Ummm... what?

Which armies refrained from killing and pillaging innocents in the past?

Furthermore, it is the explicit policy of modern armies serving today to not kill innocent people (despite the fact that they occasionally get it wrong).
Occassionaly get it wrong... and nuke a city full of civilians.

About half the Armies in the past that cross my mind never killed any civlians. The only ones that really did were the Vikings, Mongols, Huns, and other barbarian hordes.

Most of ancient Greece, then Rome, also China, the Crusaders; they all believed it wrong to kill the innocent. I'm sure you'll go find some stories where I'm "wrong", point is, if you look at history, it was a shitload more chival than today. Leaders would meet face to face, they'd abide by rules of warfare, allow losers to collect their dead. All things like this.


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