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[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Because assassination is cowardly and disgraceful. Honorable people do not have their enemies assassinated.

Huh? I'm sorry? What's the code of honor that we agreed to before the conflict?

It is very very honorable to make war by assassination. Just kill the elites that start the wars. Easy. Why force our teenagers to kill masses of other teenagers? What did any of them do to deserve that?

WWII almost ended a year early if the plot to kill Hitler had succeeded. He was also almost killed in 1940, before the invasion of Russia, something that would have saved tens of millions of lives.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What's the code of honor that we agreed to before the conflict?

The Geneva Convention, International Law, etc.
These are noncontroversial.

Most people find assassination ethically repugnant on a fundamental level, and don't need written laws to understand that assassination is unacceptable. This is an innate concept.
Children don't need to be taught that murder is amoral. It's surprising that you don't agree with this.

WWII almost ended a year early if the plot to kill Hitler had succeeded. He was also almost killed in 1940, before the invasion of Russia, something that would have saved tens of millions of lives.

This is a hypothetical answer. It's also possible that more people would have died if he was assassinated. There's no way to know for sure.

Do you have any actual historical evidence that assassinations can save lives?

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The Geneva ConventionS (there are several) must be agreed to ahead of time by both sides. And then they only apply during a state of war.

The only reason it "outlaws" assassination is because elites wrote it and they put their own interests first! They don't want to do the dying! Let us take a bullet for their dreams, cause they sure ain't doing it.

What's wrong with killing the prick who starts wars? The teens don't want to kill each other.