Hi Troufion,

Quote Originally Posted by TROUFION View Post
So long as captured uniformed troops are paraded on TV, beheaded on camera, tortured in the most sadistic ways there will be an ethics issue. Try controlling the vengeance desire of your men when their best friend was just treated worse than a cow in the slaughter house.
One of the main concerns I have with much of the current debate on "ethics" is the conflation of "ethics" and "morality". While there is no general agreement on the differences (if any) between the two terms, I have always been in favour of one line of argument that defines ethics as "right action" defined by the laws of reality and "morality" as right action defined by a particular society or culture at a particular point in time.

T., you raise an excellent point about the reactions of other service people to seeing their friends killed in this manner. I would note, however, that this is exactly the type of reaction that these actions are designed to produce.

Marc