And when the ‘good’ thing by our standards is the monstrous behavior to someone else?
WW2 and the Japanese, as someone noted, provide many examples. For example, to the Japanese, the Allies taking prisoners was ritual humiliation - and death with a sword in their hand would have been preferable.
Sometimes, your high ground is another’s sewer (or even your own), and there is nothing anyone can do to change that.
Isn’t systematically humiliating an entire group of enemies being a monster too? It’s literally banned by the Geneva convention!
In the end when conflicts like this happen, realpolitik/pragmatic application of force wins regardless.
WW2 and the Japanese, as someone noted, provide many examples. For example, to the Japanese, the Allies taking prisoners was ritual humiliation - and death with a sword in their hand would have been preferable.
Sometimes, your high ground is another’s sewer (or even your own), and there is nothing anyone can do to change that.
Isn’t systematically humiliating an entire group of enemies being a monster too? It’s literally banned by the Geneva convention!
In the end when conflicts like this happen, realpolitik/pragmatic application of force wins regardless.