@wolfwood:
Well for instance about 20.000ish british soldiers commited offenses that were punishable by death. And only about 300 were actualy executed. So not that many considering how many fought in the war.
But yeah looking back at it with our current view of our own militaries and how every soldier counts those diehard wars of attriation seem so foreign and strange. I mean the US army got some second thoughts after 3000 dead in Iraq, While to someone like Haig those casualties were made in a day or two of active combat and were hardly worth noting.
Justified moraly or by the law
Either way how Coby was rallying troops for a mutinty in the middle of a descisive battle was pretty much him asking for a death sentance.
While that one soldier deserting his post, should have been a jail term or expulsion from the marines or something like that. Felt Akainu went way overboard there.
Morally is what were talking here since the laws in one piece haven't always shown the best judgment, and just by seeing the top part of your argument I can tell we'll never see eye to eye on this
I don't just look at the numbers your presenting as just numbers, each ones a living person, with a family tied to them, the fact that people think killing people because they disagree with what the top brass tells them is justified completely blows my mind, the only time I would feel justified in killing a person is if there a murder, rapist or in some cases an accomplice to the other
Akainu shouldn't have killed the guy, locked him up, imprisoned him, stripped him of his glory and then publicly announce him a criminal for not doing the job he signed up for, yes
but to go kill him shows he's one bad ass mofo
and coby was trying to show a different point of view on the war, I mean they were leaving there men to die who could survive, it's not like the WG isn't corrupt, even smoker and tashigi commented then how fucked up the marines were acting, what he did was voice his opinion about killing people who had no will to fight and therefore causing deaths of your own teammates
and if you believe he should be killed for that then I guess I just don't understand you, I can understand playing devils advocate and finding some way to make it sound like it's justified but actually believing it in your heart… that's fucked up
of course I'm looking at it in a real world view, since this thread is a lot about what's moral, I don't really look at it like this when I'm reading
@Havoc, just because somethings your job doesn't make it right
after world war 2 they investigated many of the people who were involved in the holocaust, they asked them how they could do such horrid things, and most of them replied i was ordered to or it was my job, now obviously this is completely different subject but I just wanted to point out, it's my job isn't a reason to go do what ever you want too