Talk:Breach/@comment-26334668-20150517051005/@comment-26018514-20150518004527

Actually Live it was worse than that, they weren't terrorists who killed your family, they were terrorists trying to kill your family. The situation was fixed Josiah; the Hierarchy of lives you protect in combat:


 * 1. VIP's
 * 2. officers
 * 3. Civilians(or non-coms on your side)
 * 4. your fellow soldiers
 * 5. Civilians(possibly hostile)
 * 6. Hostiles

both 5 and 6 fall under a line of acceptable loss if any of the other 4 are endangered by them, plugging the hole saved 1-5, and only risked #6 that isn't even something you need to think about mid-combat, acceptable loss.

Trying to save them afterwards... that does deserve consideration, however:


 * A. It risks your own soldiers
 * B. There are no guarantees they could have saved anyone
 * C. There could be traps
 * D. Everything in that hole is a known hostile
 * E. They already have criminals in custody to question

and


 * F. last time that hole had civilians in it when they sealed it off... if it was that dangerous then...