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Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business (gizmodo.com)
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[–] Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 months ago

War crimes are frowned upon because they inspire escalation. If you let your soldiers get away with wanton rape and murder, then the next guy will massacre a village, then the next guy drops a nuke on a city, then the next guy unleashes a 99% kill rate bio weapon.