Posted 08 February 2005 - 05:48 AM
In the first scenario, I would kill the girl. If the men want to rape a dead girl they can go ahead. If they wouldn't agree to carry on raping the dead girl, I'd call them hypocrites and kill them all.
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Ha ha. No, seriously, I would order them to release her or make the situation one where they would be forced to assault me. I would put my weapon down on the road and step in to free her. A: I would be completely unarmed when they beat me in defence of their right to rape a 13-year-old girl. If they attacked my at any point, I would defend myself with non-lethal force. Or B: they would let me take her away and they would call me a faggot. I could live with that and I would write of the incident and send the letter to all of their mothers the moment I was somewhere I could send uncensored mail. I would also make sure other soldiers learned of what I had done (not about the letters), and that I had no intention of speaking to a superior officer about it. All I'd need to add is that this girl was no older than my sister, and these guys would be treated very badly by other soldiers after that, believe me.
In the second, I would take the man to the POW camp. Big deal he blew up a HUM-V; this is war. I'm sure we've blown up stuff on his side as well.
This is how I would react. However, to answer the question, killing is justified in both cases: in case A, killing to defend the girl, even if it pretty much made my own life forfeit. In scenario B, killing an enemy, armed or unarmed, is justified in war. Torture is not.
Seriously, what kinds of questions are these? And what's a guy like me doing in the army?
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Round two: I would not kill my firends. I would walk in and take the girl away from them and I would walk away. Later I would tell their mothers, just like in the first story, and I would tell the police as well. If my friends attacked my at any point, I would defend myself with non-lethal force.
In scenario two, I would suggest the guy panicked after hitting the jogger, and that he probably isn't necessarily a serial killer or someone deserving to make murderers of us all and send us all to jail for ten years. I would calmly throw the shithead in my car, securely restrained, and drive him to the police. However, my priority would be to 911 some help for the jogger.
That's how I would react. However, killing is justifiable in the first case, and not in the second. The hit-and-run driver is neither an enemy nor a premeditated killer. The police will sort that one out.
"I had a lot of different ideas. At one point, Luke, Leia and Ben were all going to be little people, and we did screen tests to see if we could do that." -George Lucas, in STAR WARS: the Annotated Screenplays (p197).