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Originally Posted by Willravel
If we get too specific the thread becomes too big. Estimate.
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If we stay too vague, the thread goes nowhere.
But going back to your OP, there is the legal definition of murder (killing unlawfully) and there is the moral definition (killing brutally or inhumanely). The latter suggests that there might be other ways to kill. Perhaps the swift death of aggressors given by someone defending themselves or others?
Is there such thing as an illegal war? Is there such thing as a legal one?
What is the pretext for this thread, Will? Are you willing to go as far as to say that the Iraq "war" is illegal and therefore wholesale murder?
Killing becomes wrong when the ends are for something other than the support and/or restoration of harmony, or for the defense of human rights and dignity.