Ukraine

If rules don't matter, then why have any rules? Just everyone kill everyone, military, civilian, women and children?

Or, stop giving sermons about how bad the other guy is when each side chases down a terrified conscript with a explosive toy.

Or, at the very least, perhaps not film the results like some kind of sick snuff film? I question the morality and humanity of anybody who enjoy that shit.

That's a legitimate argument.

I still don't buy it for the reasons already mentioned.

I'm an Australian.

In the first world war the Australian's had an iron clad rule, one well known to the Germans. If Australians managed to reach the enemy's trenches in an assault, they refused to accept a machine gunner's surrender.

You don't get to shoot down your opponents from relative safety and then expect mercy at the very end. Machine Gunners were an elite force of the German Army. They wore special patches denoting their status. That is, the gunner's not facing the Australian lines. Those machine gunners tended not to wear their status on their uniform. They tended not to survive capture if they did.

There was an element of hypocrisy in all this too. The Australians also had machine gun battalions. But the difference was that we accepted the rules. Perhaps if drone operators started getting shot out of hand on capture it wouldn't be so bad? Seems reasonable to me.