Blending among civilians makes discrimination in targeting nearly impossible

Evidence

The discrimination rule refers to the moral limits of military actions, which should be directed at enemy combatants, not at innocents. This is difficult to do when combatants hide among civilians and civilians are active supporters of the combatants. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2275

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels insurgent sheltering among civilians in counterinsurgency theory — e.g. Galula’s population-centric warfare. — connects to: Geographic quotas can function as covert racial discrimination that is nearly impossible to prove — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 1704; LTTE coercion of civilians rationalizes the military’s refusal to distinguish fighters from civilians — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 220