Sentences with phrase «innocent noncombatant»

Based on anonymous surveys and focus groups involving 1,320 soldiers and 447 Marines, the study revealed that only 56 % of soldiers would report a unit member for injuring or killing an innocent noncombatant, while a mere 40 % of Marines would do so.

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And Anscombe, who powerfully protested Allied direct attacks on German and Japanese noncombatants during World War II — that is, choices to kill the innocent for the sake of «good consequences» — knew firsthand utility's work on that score.

The combatant in war, unlike the noncombatant, is not considered to be an innocent, and those executed are first found guilty of murder.

The second pertains to what is called «noncombatant immunity,» meaning that there must be no intentional killing of innocent civilians.