Reply #35: It usually works the worst way

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Why? Because in desperate times, people resort to measures unthinkable under other circumstances. However, there have been armies that have restrained from such horrible doings, Saladin, Hannibal and Shivaji are all examples of leaders who have very little innocent blood on their hands.

I presented war as it is sometimes, and it is important to look at an entity from different perspectives. War is always violent and disturbing and horrible to those involved, but the slaughter of innocents is not inevitable, and injustice in war is not inescapable.