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- From: adam@endor.uucp (Adam Shostack)
- Subject: Re: No Army Needed( was: Swiss military preparedness?)
- Message-ID: <Bzs8pB.L6q@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University
- References: <BzM9op.M1x@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> <Bzo8uF.CFq@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:22:23 GMT
- Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
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- From adam@endor.uucp (Adam Shostack)
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- In article <Bzo8uF.CFq@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> PAUL D CHAPIN <pdchapin@unix.amherst.edu> writes:
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- >From PAUL D CHAPIN <pdchapin@unix.amherst.edu>
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- >A small legal point. A civilian can not shoot a member of an invading
- >army. To do so is legally murder and the invading army would be quite within
- >its rights to try and execute the civilian. This actually makes sense. If
- >we write the rules so the soldiers can't deliberately shoot the civilians,
- >it's only reasonable that it works both ways.
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- In that case, was it illegal for Afghanis to shoot Soviet soldiers?
- That doesn't make (much) sense to me. It seems that people should
- have a right to defend their homes.
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- Could you provide some sort of a legal pointer so I could do some
- reading on this?
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- Thanks,
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- Adam
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- Adam Shostack adam@das.harvard.edu
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- What a terrible thing to have lost one's .sig. Or not to have a .sig
- at all. How true that is.
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