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Wrong doesn't exist on that level in war. There are a few big rules, like don't shoot the civilians on purpose. Other than those, anything goes. You figured out how to turn their base into a microwave? Go for it. Instant 40 foot deep mud traps that swallow tanks with no warning? Completely legitimate.
Those are extreme science fiction examples but I hope they illustrate just how much nobody in a war cares about a sense of honor.
If rules don't matter, then why have any rules? Just everyone kill everyone, military, civilian, women and children?
Or, stop giving sermons about how bad the other guy is when each side chases down a terrified conscript with a explosive toy.
Or, at the very least, perhaps not film the results like some kind of sick snuff film? I question the morality and humanity of anybody who enjoy that shit.
It's not that the rules don't matter. It's that the Geneva conventions boiled the rules down to the ones that really matter.
And I like that there's video. I want people to see how fucked up war is.
Enjoy...