Mercy Killing

[boxy]

Under Canadian law, showing mercy is not a defense of murder.

And yet, this soldier was found not guilty of murdering a mortally wounded enemy soldier who wasn't going to get medical treatment any time soon, only to be found guilty of "disgraceful conduct"... presumably to avoid a mandatory life sentence.

"This is how mandatory minimum sentences deliver not justice, but vengeance."

[Super Nova]

Interesting. It reads that the jury were able to come to the right decision.

How many times has a soldier put people they have wounded out of their missery. I suspect it happen alot.

What pisses me off is the fact our soldiers are bound by rules and a code of conducts not shared by our enimies. Were is the courts on the emimies side conficting their soldiers/rebels for their behaviour. they have no hestitation in killing the inocent. this imbalance will lead to our failure in these wars. War is war and we should defend our solders. The kills of the inocent should not be tolerated, but the killing of a comabtant, harmed or not should be within the rules.

Poor bastard, I feel sorry for him. We send him to war then not support him when under pressure he makes an error like this. Hell, if he is injured, we have to look after the bastard as they continue to attack. It is bettre to remove him from the equation, sometimes I suspect.

[IQSRLOW]

Damn - I was hoping this thread was about Aussie or HIDETHESAUSAGE

[Super Nova]

Damn - I was hoping this thread was about Aussie or HIDETHESAUSAGE

I guess now you have made it one.

[IQSRLOW]

Alright- to be back on subject...

This what happens when lawyers are allowed access to unsavoury situations. Shoot the lawyers first then shoot the critically wounded insurgent.
If a cabby is hit in the crossfire, then two birds with one stone comes to mind

[Super Nova]

Alright- to be back on subject...

This what happens when lawyers are allowed access to unsavoury situations. Shoot the lawyers first then shoot the critically wounded insurgent.
If a cabby is hit in the crossfire, then two birds with one stone comes to mind

I like the connection attempt. Therefore valid in the context.

I think the only appropriate action would be to shoot the wounded insurgent just as he was getting out from behind wheel of the cab he was driving just as he was about to go into court to represent an fellow insurgent cab driver for the killing of the innocent.

[IQSRLOW]

Jolly good show, old chap.

I could only better it if the lawyer/cab driver picked up the insurgent to drive him to the court house to represent him. In that case, an IED for the vehicle would provide a hit of 3 birds with one stone, possibly 4 because everyone knows that a cab driver who thinks he is a lawyer is possibly a terrorist

[Sappho]

What pisses me off is the fact our soldiers are bound by rules and a code of conducts not shared by our enimies. Were is the courts on the emimies side conficting their soldiers/rebels for their behaviour. they have no hestitation in killing the inocent. this imbalance will lead to our failure in these wars. War is war and we should defend our solders. The kills of the inocent should not be tolerated, but the killing of a comabtant, harmed or not should be within the rules.

I agree with the concept of mercy killings for friends and foes in times of war; where the suffering death is barbaric in comparison to the quick death, assuming that no medical assistance can be access for days.

I cannot agree however with a broad sweeping of the brush that would allow barbaric behavior from our soldiers against an enemy for the most childish of reasons.... They do it too, so ner!

War is not as war once was. If we can save a soul from death and camp them for the duration of the war, then we must do that for the sake of humanitarian values which go with us to war and for which we fight for in the first place.

[boxy]

In situations like this, it's not the act itself that is immoral or not, but the motivation. This same action could either be an extreme example of showing mercy to an enemy, or one of the worst acts of cowardice and malice... and only one man (at most) really knows, and he will live, with either the shame or the pride, for the rest of his life, regardless of the label the court chooses to apply.

"Hard core man, fucking hard core."

[J.W. Frogen]

I would have thought they should have had a corpsman or medic some where in the unit, give the guy a lot of morphine, try to get help when you can and let God or fate sort it out.