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Originally Posted by jrizz  The US solders that liberated Dachau summarily executed the SS officers they found there. General Patton pardoned them. |
RL historical events are somewhat tricky to use as examples as it is really the winner that decides what's okay and what is not.
If, for example, the Japanese suddenly had won the war against the US, I'm sure all the commanders for the US fleet of Strategic Bombers would have been trialed and found guilty (likely executed), along with all those who ordered the use of the two nuclear weapons.
Karl Donitz was trialed and found guilty due to the use of unrestricted submarine warfare... which is not much different from what the US used on the pacific side (interestingily even stated so by the famous admiral Nimitz).
In real life wars, everyone tend to lose, and there are no true "good" and "evil" side - everything is instead mixed in different shades of gray.
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Originally Posted by Stephen_Zuckerman And evil act for a good reason (killing the Joker in cold blood, for example) is still an evil act... But the good act of saving those lives tends to balance it out. |
Indeed!
But then, you are walking a very, very fine line. Any sort of miss-step and the evil might as well outweight the good.