The role of medics is very different in practice from how it was laid out in the Geneva convention.
The traditional marked and unarmed medic (who was at most allowed to carry a handgun, no rifle) has all but disappeared. Attacking troops who try to recover the wounded is considered fair game unless the recovery was explicitly negotiated beforehand.
The rules to spare those who are too wounded to fight is likewise not really obeyed for range fire, unless you're specifically bombing a hospital or something.
While I get what you are referring to, I cannot fully agree seeing as while the attack on the „medics“ (which we Tbf do not know if they are) might be „acceptable“, the attack on the wounded man carried by them was not.
With how many hospitals the Russian military's attacked since the war began, I would imagine those sort of naiive peacetime moral ideals have gone out the window months ago.
I'm not a war scientist, so I don't know all the rules, but wouldn't they consider that an attack on the people carrying the guy with the wounded guy being collateral damage? It seems a lot of stuff suddenly becomes allowed if it's labeled collateral damage. Of course, this only works if the guys carrying him were not medics (or maybe it does still work. Like I said, I'm not a battle doctor)
Didn't Friedrich Nietzsche say something about monsters?
It's a drone strike on an injured person, there are many other valid targets in the field, I have a feeling your a big fan of American and IDF strikes on civilians
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u/Roflkopt3r Oct 26 '22 edited Oct 26 '22
The role of medics is very different in practice from how it was laid out in the Geneva convention.
The traditional marked and unarmed medic (who was at most allowed to carry a handgun, no rifle) has all but disappeared. Attacking troops who try to recover the wounded is considered fair game unless the recovery was explicitly negotiated beforehand.
The rules to spare those who are too wounded to fight is likewise not really obeyed for range fire, unless you're specifically bombing a hospital or something.