War = mass murder. Why is it justifyable to kill people in a war if you are the aggressor?

Question

I agree completely that killing in self defense, or in defense of those you love is acceptable if there is no other option but why do people think it is OK to attack another country and kill innocent civilians...why is that OK, or any different than mass murder.

Answer 1

I don't even agree with the self defense part of the question. I see any killing as wrong for any reason. If someone else wants that negativity on their soul there is nothing that I can do about it, but I don't want it on mine.

Jesus proved to us that these body's are nothing more than temporary vehicles for spirit. Killing others can damage us spiritually but the loss of a body does not harm spirit in any way.

This life is about spiritual growth and understanding. It is not about living forever in these body's.

Love and blessings

Don

Answer 2

War is a horrible part of the human culture. Man wages war on man for power, at the brutal cost of human life. Look at the amount of companies in the world that are making money off of warfare. How can you go to sleep peacefully at night when you work in the factory that produces cluster bombs? Would you like your family or neighborhood to be cluster bombed?
To answer your question, there is no justifyable cause for warfare, only cowards wage war. Diplomacy is the true path to peaceful resolution.

Answer 3

You have to distinguish between the law of humans and the law of God. The two laws are very different, and often incompatible.

According to the Divine law, an aggressive war for greed is, indeed, mass murder.

When it comes to human laws, I would not even bother commenting.

God has the last word, and his is the final Judgment. Unfortunately, those who instigate the wars and create laws to condone them, do not believe in God, albeit some of them use his name often, to manipulate those gullible and silly to believing them.

Ignorance and naivety are dangerous. If everyone THOUGHT, and followed their own conscience, there would be no wars.

But people follow like sheep, the dogmas and their evil leaders manipulating them through mass media into blind hatred, and into wars that no-one can win.

Answer 4

We are led to believe in particular ideologies. We live in a military industrial illusion of democracy and there is great profit in war for a minority of rich industrialists. To this end they must use the media to create and invent 'us and them' scenarios. All wars of the 20th century were for resources, do not let historians convince you that the first world war was because some prince got iced, it was for resources in the middle east. Effectively we are fighting the same war over and over again, a bit like Orwell's war in '1984, a constant battle with 'europa' televised as a means of control. It is time people started to wise up to this barbarism going on still among all brothers and sisters on this Earth of ours.

Answer 5

Man is a territorial and acquistive animal, always has been and always will be. Over the past 500 years or so we have developed less violent ways of acquiring more but in the end if we want it, someone else has it and we can get away with it, we will take it.

Anyone who thinks the nature of man will change anytime soon is an idiot.

Answer 6

Well, with your first statement after your question, that's why people feel like war between another country and killing innocent civilians is ok. They feel just like you. Killing is wrong no matter how you look at it.

Answer 7

It is not justifyable and Karma will hit the USA eventually.

Answer 8

Morally, it's not OK, but humans are very good at using politics to do horrible things and justify their actions.

Answer 9

Who said it was OK? Innocent civilians get killed in wars - that's a fact of war.

Answer 10

To meet any goal, everything is justifiable, especially when no morals or ethics are involved.