In traditional military ethics and the accepted laws of war, defeated enemy soldiers ought to be treated humanely and with respect. These men were fighting openly, under their country’s flag, by the same rules and with the same honor as your nation’s own soldiers.
In part, you treat them decently to earn similar treatment for soldiers in your own army unlucky enough to get captured. But on a much deeper level, fair treatment of enemy captives is what they deserve, so that’s what you offer them. Spies Get Hanged from Lamp Posts
What do we do with spies, who wear disguises, even dress in our soldiers’ own uniforms? Or traitors who lurk within, committing sabotage and espionage? They are subject to quick military justice, and the death penalty.
By taking advantage of our natural trust of our own countrymen, these infiltrators threaten to poison the body politic, and spread paranoia and […]
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