The Sotoan Union wrote:So basically you can target other countries civilian populations if they target yours. So this only does anything if both countries maintain an uneasy balance of not targeting each other's civilians. Otherwise it is worthless, as both countries can target each other's civilians if they feel that the other country targeted theirs.
For example, in a war with a non-WA country, they may freely target your civilians. This resolution will then allow you to target their civilians, which means that this resolution saves no one in that regard.
This resolution also allows for targeting of civilians if a strategic target is placed within a civilian area. Well if you nuke a factory and it kills enemy civilians, which is allowed in this resolution, then can the enemy interpret that as intentionally targeting their civilians, also defined in this resolution as being a good justification for retaliating against enemy civilians, and therefore intentionally nuke your civilians? Even though you were following this resolution? Under this resolution's logic, both countries were following the rules, and both ended up killing each other's civilians.
I feel that only under very strict conditions will this resolution save any lives.
But it's the way by which those conditions are strict that will help this resolution pass. By my understanding, the clause on targeting civilian populations once yours are targeted is a concession with regards to those who would argue against the resolution on grounds of non-WA members remaining free from this resolution; on the second example, the one on the factory town, I don't think such an interpretation could be readily seen as valid.
Anyway, the point is, even though the resolution might only save lives under very strict conditions, at the very least it has the power to save lives. The WA community is, by my perception, still quite nuke-happy, so doing something too drastic on nuclear weapons use will definitely not pass; instead, if we are to try to save lives from nuclear destruction, we'll have to take such a piece more slowly, one resolution at a time, and Mundiferrum affirms our belief that this resolution is one step upward in said ladder.