Ethics of pilots fighting for the sides in WWII

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Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

Do all philosophers have an 'S' in them?

Emmanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable,
Eidegger, Eidegger was a boozin' beggar who could drink you under the table,
David Hulme could out-consume Schauffenheur and Hegel,
And Lichtenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schleigel.

And apparently Socrates was a bugger when pissed.

So not all of them. Plato is another.

My opinion, for what it's worth, is that we fly this particular flight sim to simulate not just combat flight, but also historical events of the past.
We may even yearn to have been involved at the time, or wonder whether we'd've been capable of the feats and achievements of our respective forebears.

Or simply wonder what it would have been like to fly some wonderful machinery for 'the other side'.

This doesn't imply that all Blue team members are closet Nazis or potentially sadistic Imperialist Samurai, or that all Red team members are closet Communists or British Empire snobs or gun-toting Yankee Rednecks. Just that they'd like to find out what it was like to fly for them.

As far as political affiliations are concerned, depending on where you were born, you'd more than likely have been steeped in your contemporary National culture like the rest of your generation and therefore a choice of allegiance would have been pretty much closed to you. You may even have agreed with most if not all of it's attitudes and philosophies.

What I do know, is that when 'Storm of War/Cliffs of Dover/What-Ho Fritz, and Tally-Ho!' does get released, you won't see me in a 109.