Poll: Would You Shoot Enemies Helping Their Wounded?
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I assume this is a poll about killing the wounded in real life and not in a video game situation. For me if somebody is wounded then they are out of action unless they continue to try to fight. Somebody who is wounded is a huge resource burden on the enemy which requires money, supplies, and man power to treat the wounded soldier which is less resources being put into fighting.
In the spirit of humanity people who have surrendered or are out of combat action due to injury should be treated fairly as humans. In most cases the enemy soldier you are fighting is merely a pawn of the government/organization that controls them. Also showing respect towards your enemy may someday save you or a comrade from being shot as they are captured or wounded.
In the spirit of humanity people who have surrendered or are out of combat action due to injury should be treated fairly as humans. In most cases the enemy soldier you are fighting is merely a pawn of the government/organization that controls them. Also showing respect towards your enemy may someday save you or a comrade from being shot as they are captured or wounded.
Trouble with that is, then the Medics turn into Soldiers, which means more people will be spraying lead at you.Pariah87 said:
In conventional warfare, a wounded soldier who needs to be saved is a VERY good thing, as it takes a lot of manpower to get him off the front lines.
Sure, he might live after that, but you won't see him shooting back at you for a good while.
Part of the reason why nobody caused too much of a fuss when controlled-expansion (Hollow Point) rounds were outlawed for use in warfare, was that the non-expanding Full Metal Jacket round was more effective in conventional warfare, as per studies conducted about WW2, amongst others.
Of course, in modern day fighting, against an enemy who doesn't wear any real body armour and who isn't all that concerned with saving their downed friends, it's coming back to bite us in the ass, but that's a whole other story.
Well, that depends. Why am I fighting?
Am I an invader? Am I fighting against an enemy like the Communists, to prevent a scenario that one domino theory thing that had no grounding in reality, or is it a genuine threat to the world?
...No. I wouldn't anyway. The soldiers I'm fighting are likely in the same boat as myself- unwilling combatants, fighting a war larger than they. I might well shoot them to protect myself- and even that is a maybe, because I have no reason to believe that I am emotionally stable enough to handle such an act without breaking down and crying- but the second they stop actually posing a current threat to me, they are no longer my enemies. Orders can get fucked.
Am I an invader? Am I fighting against an enemy like the Communists, to prevent a scenario that one domino theory thing that had no grounding in reality, or is it a genuine threat to the world?
...No. I wouldn't anyway. The soldiers I'm fighting are likely in the same boat as myself- unwilling combatants, fighting a war larger than they. I might well shoot them to protect myself- and even that is a maybe, because I have no reason to believe that I am emotionally stable enough to handle such an act without breaking down and crying- but the second they stop actually posing a current threat to me, they are no longer my enemies. Orders can get fucked.
Don't say just in videogames! That takes the entire interesting moral quandary and destroys it!razelas said:
In a videogame: FUCK YES
In real life: If it was an enemy leader, yes, if the people helping him were combatants, not medics, yes. But if they're just unarmed (maybe a sidearm) medics who are helping a grunt, no, godspeed medics!
The NVA and the VC both didn't always target medics. They would purposely wound soldiers, rather than kill them, and allow them to be extracted since they knew that wounded soldiers took more resources to remove from the battlefield and treat.
Thought that's would be interesting. It's funny cause I remember reading that the Vietnamese were very good shots and most of the wounded were shot in the head. Oh yeah, that was in the book 'we were soldiers once... And young' and was about a fairly vicious firefight where both sides just went there to fuck each other up as much as possible. And so that would be the reason why they shot them in the head.
Sorry for all the rambling
Thought that's would be interesting. It's funny cause I remember reading that the Vietnamese were very good shots and most of the wounded were shot in the head. Oh yeah, that was in the book 'we were soldiers once... And young' and was about a fairly vicious firefight where both sides just went there to fuck each other up as much as possible. And so that would be the reason why they shot them in the head.
Sorry for all the rambling
This is what I was trying and failing to say in my above post.tehroc said:
The more wounded, the less recources they can use to screw you over with.
The more money that goes into hospitals, the less money goes into guns and fuel and bombs.
War is expensive.
Video Games? Probably.
In reality, I'd like to think I wouldn't target medics. Not only are medics usually non-combatants (if they are shooting at me, fuck them they can die) and people who are wounded generally stop giving a shit about fighting and just want to get taken care of. So no. Also if I do start shooting medics, that shit's eventually gonna get out and then it's gonna fly, making my cause/country/name less reputable and people are going to be less inclined to help me.
But I have never been in such a situation myself so I honestly can't say for sure what i'd do.
In reality, I'd like to think I wouldn't target medics. Not only are medics usually non-combatants (if they are shooting at me, fuck them they can die) and people who are wounded generally stop giving a shit about fighting and just want to get taken care of. So no. Also if I do start shooting medics, that shit's eventually gonna get out and then it's gonna fly, making my cause/country/name less reputable and people are going to be less inclined to help me.
But I have never been in such a situation myself so I honestly can't say for sure what i'd do.
I would refuse to participate in a war under someone's orders. I am a citizen of the Russian Federation, yet I am not listed anywhere. Neither Greece nor Russia may have me at their disposal, therefore, I refuse to be enlisted in any army. I believe it is degrading for me as a human being.
In a video game? Sure, the medic dies first. In reality, I would likely shoot a medic to draw out even more soldiers to rescue that medic, but they end up dying.
that depends if I'm fighting a honorable enemy who is just fighting for their country (then I wouldn't) If i was fighting a bunch of religious fanatics whose sole goal was to kill me and as many of my friends as possible then its murdering time.