Soldierly Honesty (and spies)

[Hans Rancke-Madsen]

Originally Posted by SuedodeuS

Personally, I think when dealing with an enemy country you are going to consider the laws completely invalid and not applying to you. Otherwise, you can't have an Honest grunt capable of doing his job if the country he's fighting is, say, a hierarchy in which laws only apply to associations with those of the same social class or higher - one can abuse those not of the same or higher status and if the lower fights back he/she is arrested (as the soldier is outside of said social class, he cannot engage any enemies, as this is illegal). That seems ridiculously artificial.

You might be right, but note that mental GURPS disadvantages are usually rather extreme. Pathological level extreme. It's quite arguable that a grunt with Honesty would be incapable of doing his job in a foreign country. There just aren't many people with that level of compulsion to follow all laws.


Hans