Mercy humanity in warfare
War presents the most degraded moral environment humanity creates. It is an arena where individuality is subsumed in collective violence and humanity is obscured as a faceless, merciless enemy pitted against its reflection in an elemental struggle for survival. A barbaric logic has guided the conduc...
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| 520 | 3 | |a War presents the most degraded moral environment humanity creates. It is an arena where individuality is subsumed in collective violence and humanity is obscured as a faceless, merciless enemy pitted against its reflection in an elemental struggle for survival. A barbaric logic has guided the conduct of war throughout history. Yet as Cathal Nolan reveals in this book, even as war can obliterate hope and decency at the grand level it simultaneously produces conditions that permit astonishing exceptions of mercy and shared dignity. Pulling the trigger is usually both the expedient thing and required by war's grim and remorseless calculus. Yet somehow the trigger is not always pulled. Humanity is rediscovered and honoured in a flash of recognition. This book gathers and explores acts of singular mercy | |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS Introduction 1 PARTI: CULTURE 1. Stories 11 2. Heroes 29 3. Killers 42 PARTII: COMBAT 4. Pity 61 5. Grace 79 6. Dissent 100 7. Truces 120 PARTIU: PROTECTED 8. Medics 143 9. Prisoners 165 10. Civilians 186 PART IV: TECHNOLOGY 11. Steel 213 12. Stealth 229
viii «i Contents 13. Wings 244 14. Conclusions 262 Author s Note 267 Notes 273 Index 307
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