If you know innocent people are going to die as in the case of war, is it still an accident?

Question

Is it ok to kill a 3 year old baby so that you can live? What is the exceptable ratio.... 3 babys die so 5,000 adults can live? who can decide ?

Answer 1

Well, they (they being the war pigs) justify this by calling it 'collateral damage' - which means innocents objects (cars, buildings, people) will be destroyed by accident while attacking whatever 'target' they're after...and they're okay with it!

Pathetic if you ask me.

Answer 2

OK, so we need to give up on our justice system as well, because we convict innocent people all the time for crimes they did not commit.

What is the acceptable ratio there?

Most people are willing to live with the small imperfections of our justice system so that they can live in a civilized society.

There is collateral damage everywhere, look around.

It is a fact of life. We have to make small sacrifices for the greater good.

Answer 3

Very hard to say this but.. Yes it's ok. About the limit....(even harder to say it) maybe 4999.

The decision is made by the one who has the power to do it. For instance let' take the Hiroshima and Nagasaki example. The american commanders estimated how many soldiers must die in order to conquer Japan and they decided that it's better to kill 200.000 japanese civilians in order to spare the lives of 300.000 american soldiers.

Another example... I saw a documentary about Vietnam and one of the plutoon commanders said that one time, him and 7 people from his plutoon got surrounded by the enemy. He called his superior for reinforments because they faced certain death and the commander said: "I'm not risking the life of 32 people (another plutoon) in order to save 8". This is a very logical decision with one condition: you're not among the 8 people.

The bottom line is that war puts us in this kind of situations. If we don't like them we should think better before raising the sword above someone else's neck.

Answer 4

well see an accident is when something bad happens without u having any control over the situation. well, killing some one does not happen by an accident. well, i don't think that killing babies is right, but if it is mandatory, and 5,000 other lives can be saved by giving up 3, well, i think i would not complain about it.

Answer 5

It is not a planned event so yet it would be an accident. Usually referred to as collateral damage and the question is loaded as to having no right answer. It is up to the individual. Could you live with killing a 3yr old?

Answer 6

Ecclesiastes 9:11 I returned to see under the sun that the swift do not have the race, nor the mighty ones the battle, nor do the wise also have the food, nor do the understanding ones also have the riches, nor do even those having knowledge have the favor; because time and unforeseen occurrence befall them all.

Answer 7

Casualties in war can not be helped, innocent or not. I think it is awful, but it can not be prevented all the time. But, I try to think at least the ones who perish are going to a better place where they will never have to suffer through wars or any other bad things we face here on Earth.

Answer 8

In times past, most war victims were soldiers. No longer. Since the second world war, 80 percent of the 20 million killed and 60 million wounded in various conflicts have been civilians—mostly women and children. At one stage during the 1980’s, 25 children in Africa were dying every hour as a result of such conflicts! Countless numbers of children have been killed, wounded, abandoned, orphaned, or taken hostage.
The millions of children who are now growing up in refugee camps are often deprived of identity and nationality as well as of adequate food, health care, and education. Many find it impossible to acquire skills that will earn them a place in society.
But children are not merely victims of wars; they are also fighters of wars. In recent years 200,000 youngsters under 15 years of age have been recruited, armed, and trained to kill. Among them were those who lost life or limbs as they obeyed orders to open pathways through fields of land mines.
Can the true God be pleased with this? Certainly not!
Christendom and their leaders are mostly to blame for all this sorrow.The clergy have backed wars that have taken tens of millions of lives, the worst wars in all history. They supported both sides in the two world wars, in which people of the same religion, “brothers,” killed one another. For instance, in World War II, French and American Catholics killed German and Italian Catholics; British and American Protestants killed German Protestants. At times, they killed others who were not only of the same religion but also of the same national background. The two world wars erupted in the heart of Christendom and would not have been possible had the clergy obeyed the commandment to love, and taught their followers to do the same.
All who condone or who participate in the shedding of innocent blood shall be held accountable to God.

Answer 9

Good question. I don't know the answer, and I would hate to have to be the person responsible for making that decision.

Answer 10

yes, because it is their choice to be in the military, so they are risking their own lives.