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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5727160" data-attributes="member: 54877">There are multiple Geneva Conventions (note the plural), and the latter ones are not signed as much as the earlier ones.&nbsp; (The USA has not signed the most recent conventions.)&nbsp; But in this scenario, it doesn't matter.&nbsp;If goblins are coming through some kind of rift, humanity falls back on what it considers fair play or not (&quot;just war&quot; or whichever system you want to use)--against non-humans.&nbsp; Humanity doesn't know what the goblins' views of these ideals are--nor their goals, fidelity to their ideals, etc.&nbsp; So in the &quot;First Goblin War,&quot; it is pretty much anything goes that a human can justify to another human.&nbsp; After the war, assuming some kind of stalemate, truce, exchange of ideas, etc, then there may be a first &quot;Goblin Convention&quot; signed.&nbsp; It probably won't be exactly like any of the Geneva Conventions, unless the goblins are much like humans.&nbsp;In the early going, &quot;misunderstanding&quot; will dominate everything.&nbsp; This will lead to all kinds of things that the active parties will come to regret (for various reasons). Lack of conventions on treatment of prisoners in war and targetting of civilians are one of many.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5727160, member: 54877"] There are multiple Geneva Conventions (note the plural), and the latter ones are not signed as much as the earlier ones. (The USA has not signed the most recent conventions.) But in this scenario, it doesn't matter. If goblins are coming through some kind of rift, humanity falls back on what it considers fair play or not ("just war" or whichever system you want to use)--against non-humans. Humanity doesn't know what the goblins' views of these ideals are--nor their goals, fidelity to their ideals, etc. So in the "First Goblin War," it is pretty much anything goes that a human can justify to another human. After the war, assuming some kind of stalemate, truce, exchange of ideas, etc, then there may be a first "Goblin Convention" signed. It probably won't be exactly like any of the Geneva Conventions, unless the goblins are much like humans. In the early going, "misunderstanding" will dominate everything. This will lead to all kinds of things that the active parties will come to regret (for various reasons). Lack of conventions on treatment of prisoners in war and targetting of civilians are one of many. [/QUOTE]

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