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Ok now I'm really confused. If killing is necessarily bad, then how can it be justified in the case of self defense? And it's a distraction to point out that c
by chroma 8y ago
Ok now I'm really confused. If killing is necessarily bad, then how can it be justified in the case of self defense?
And it's a distraction to point out that capital punishment is banned in some countries. Those countries still have cops that shoot criminals and they have military forces that would kill other soldiers in the event of war. Capital punishment is about depriving someone of life after they've been captured. Capturing is rarely an option in a warzone. Given that constraint, it's better that the military kill someone like Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi rather than let them go free.
- jstanley 8y agoIf the military is really about defence, it has no business in foreign countries whatsoever.
- chroma 8y agoBy that logic, America was not justified in attacking Germany during WWII. Countries have several good reasons to invade other countries. They can come to the defense of their allies. Or they can invade to stop genocide, such as in the Kosovo War. There's also the idea of a preemptive war, though in practice that is usually a pretext.
- alluro2 8y agoUgh, please don't use Kosovo as an example of a "good" kind of intervention, without looking more deeply into historical context and consequences afterwards...