Because the lawyers are the piece of the machinery. You remove them, other pieces will assemble.
if you kill your enemies, you lose
What a stupid npc mentality
Killing your enemies without getting caught is not for everybody.
Achieving a kill/death ratio of1:1 means you lose. At least thats how i look at it.
If spending the res of your life in jail to kill one of the enemy is worth it to you then so be it. But I disagree. Unless you can go law abiding citizen and get most/all, then its as the poster said, the cog in the machinery gets replaced, and you lose.
Historically, killing the enemy wasn't always the best option. That would involve fighting- which means you are expending resources in the form of healthy warriors.
This is why most of the time, the goal of a battle is to get the enemy to either surrender or flee. The last thing you want is for them to resolve to fight to the death- they will fight ferociously, knowing they will die, and thus cost more of your men.
Sun Tzu wrote in the Art of War to never fully surround an enemy army. You can engage from the front, envelope their flanks, but you should always leave an inviting, open escape route. If the men in the defending army realize "Oh shit, we're surrounded, we're all going to die... unless we run into that open field on our right flank...."
Also, treating enemy combatants who surrender is important. This will make them more likely to surrender quickly. If they know that being captured means torture followed by a slit throat, they'll fight to the death to avoid this usually. Hmm.. didn't a LOT of people surrender to the Nazis? I don't think people would want to surrender to Germany if there were death camp rumors. There were none.
Even Jesus Christ told us to fight using our brains. If your first resort is violence, then you already lost.
Not if they are afraid for their lives.
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