The Rules Of Engagement

Please show honor in your slaughter

Dishonorable slaughter is gross and gauche.

Please exhibit fairness in your carnage,

Only fair carnage and Visa accepted here.

Do not be too brutal in your brutality.

Do not be uncivil in your killing by killing civilians.

EDIT: Do not be uncivil in your killing by killing

an excessive amount of civilians.

The amount of civilians killed must be proportional

to the military advantage gained.

(Measuring cup of proportionality of kills vs. gain included -

NOTE: Not available in metric - only available in Imperial).

So if there's a big honkin' military advantage to be gained,

Let your slaughter be bountiful.

Please do not torture anyone in war,

except the psychological torture

war brings crashing down on all of us.

That torture is okey-dokey.

Please only murder in a way that minimizes outrages on personal dignity.

Better yet, if you're murdered, please control your outrage.

Outrage of the murdered is so outré.

Do not cause excessive harm when killing and maiming.

Please apply the Goldlocks Principal when killing and maiming

by causing the amount of harm that is "just right."

Copy of Goldilocks and the Three Bears included for reference.

To help determine the amount of harm that is

just

right.

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Or...

Do not murder? Proportionately or disproportionately.

Ever.

Do not engage in combat? Whether military advantage is gained or lost.

Ever.

Fight no more wars? Dignified, honorable, necessary or unnecessary, civil, or otherwise.

All of the harm is excessive.

All of the torture is real.

All of the lost lives stay lost

squandered.

The one, perfect rule of engagement in killing, combat, war:

THERE CAN BE NO ENGAGEMENT IN KILLING, COMBAT, WAR.

EVER.