Even the old “state v non-state actor” issue is clear on this one - irregardless of human morality and basic decency:
If legit army, they must get full protections (IDF says no, int’l law is dubious for Al-Qassam - Hamas has command structure and salaries, but often skips uniforms and hides among the populace)
If not legit army, must be treated with protection offered to civilians UNTIL a court gets involved and adjudicates them to not be just civilians
The physical or mental health and integrity of persons who are in the power of the adverse Party or who are interned, detained or otherwise deprived of liberty as a result of a situation referred to in Article 1 shall not be endangered by any unjustified act or omission
[further down in same text]
Article 45 - Protection of persons who have taken part in hostilities
A person who takes part in hostilities and falls into the power of an adverse Party shall be presumed to be a prisoner of war… Should any doubt arise as to whether any such person is entitled to the status of prisoner of war, he shall continue to have such status and, therefore, to be protected by the Third Convention and this Protocol until such time as his status has been determined by a competent tribunal.
If a person who has fallen into the power of an adverse Party is not held as a prisoner of war and is to be tried by that Party for an offence arising out of the hostilities, he shall have the right to assert his entitlement to prisoner-of-war status before a judicial tribunal and to have that question adjudicated…[more legalese and closing loopholes]…
Any person who has taken part in hostilities, who is not entitled to prisoner-of-war status and who does not benefit from more favourable treatment in accordance with the Fourth Convention shall have the right at all times to the protection of Article 75 of this Protocol. In occupied territory, any such person, unless he is held as a spy, shall also be entitled, notwithstanding Article 5 of the Fourth Convention, to his rights of communication under that Convention.
Just say regardless. The ir- negates something that already negates in the way you want. Its only fun to say, it very unfunly negates everything you say after it
He stumbled through the alleyway, tripping over himself in an attempt to flee. But he realises too late that it is a dead end.
He turns around and there are 3 officers of karma at the other end. They point their 20MP cancellers as they slowly walk towards him.
One flash and the man feels his ratio take a downward dip through his neurolink. Another flash, as another image is fed into an AI that starts to fabricate an entire history. With each consecutive flash the man gets ratio’d to death.
As he falls over in shock a statement from his employer is published where he is fired publicly, a Twitch Court™ is held where his parentage of his children is taken away, before his head even hit the ground.
The chip in his head requests assisted suicide and it is granted. The built in neural tripwire causes brain death instantly, his body parts already automatically being traded and his body marked for pickup.
POV: you’re nineteen layers deep into some dark pattern bullshit menus and they’ve finally stopped asking you if you’re really sure, if you want a discount, if you want to proceed with cancelling or you want to cancel cancelling, and every button to proceed is dull grey and every button to go back to passively giving them money is a big friendly blue colour, and now they’ve decided this must be serious and you need to talk to someone about this.
Then the camera pans out and it’s like a scene out of the Terminator movies. “I’m here to cancel you. Please do not resist. Overcorp thanks you for your cooperation.”
China gifted Germany two pandas who live in the Berlin zoo. They cost us around 2 million euros a year in upkeep iirc. Now that’s a gift with a baggage.
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