2006-07-15 01:11:03 · 7 answers · asked by In Honor of Moja 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
There are two types of war. The just and unjust. The unjust war is murder on a massive scale. To be involved in an unjust war makes the soldiers and nation they represent guilty of murder. To be involved in a just war is to be striving to establish justice and protect the innocent. It is to fight a limited war that protects and uses only the force necessary to establish justice. It recognizes the significance of every human life including the life of our enemy. War should be avoided whenever possible. Most offensive wars are unjust.
2006-07-15 01:57:53 · answer #1 · answered by normwiselwc 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
War is worse than murder. War is genocide. When one country fights another for whatever reason, there is always wholesale death and destruction on a much grander scale than murder. If you kill a neighbor you are commiting murder, if you try to kill a whole country or way of life you are commiting the worst possible offense against humanity. Unforgivable and irreconcilable. "All gods cry out against inhumanity."
2006-07-15 09:55:58 · answer #2 · answered by Robert C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple questions deserve simple answers.
Warfare and Murder are two forms of killing.
The difference is that war makes murder an obligation of patriotism. Normally, murder is not an obligation but an inclination. We murder because we want to. We willingly and knowingly kill somebody. That is the legal definition of murder: the knowing and willing taking of another person's life.
Soldiers kill to fullfill their orders. They take those orders out of patriotism. Patriotism is a belief that you owe the society which supports you your protection. It dates back to feudalism when that was the arangement between the king or patriarch and his people. He fed them and they fought for him. Simple.
Most murders are committed in the name of passion, anger, love, whatever. The person thinks about it, plans it and then commits the murder. Motif, means, opportunity and premeditation are all the elements of a classic murder.
Simply stated, war is planned but hopefully dispationate. Even a jihad is supposed to be done not out of anger but out of devotion to Alla. So you have murder sans motif.
2006-07-15 09:00:25 · answer #3 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it is simply murder on a larger scale... a much larger scale. and really there is no difference except that when it comes to warfare it is legal!!
2006-07-15 08:15:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Warfare is legal (usually), or at least state sponsored, and warfare (usually) has a stated legal purpose. Murder is death in a crime.
2006-07-15 08:19:49 · answer #5 · answered by ceprn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
War is the last resort, if no solutions can be agreed upon. As they say, " The ultimate purpose of war is peace..."
2006-07-15 08:21:05 · answer #6 · answered by Joy RP 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
none, there's just social stigma for criminals. Even though we should sympathize with their exigences just as much as the idiot soldier in the foreign country, killing people for "honor and liberty".
2006-07-15 12:39:09 · answer #7 · answered by -.- 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋