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In reply to the discussion: You cannot be providing money and weapons for people who have killed [View all]The Magistrate
(95,449 posts)'War' is another.
'Murder' is killing, homicide, if you will, defined by law as criminal in the highest degree. It does not exist outside of civil law.
War is killing directed by the state, and itself exists outside of civil law. Killing in war can be atrocious, it can be obviously wrong, counter-productive as well as key to victory: it can be any number of things. There exists a pretense that a body of international law defines some killing in war as criminal, and this has been wielded against some petty powers, but as there exists no mechanism to enforce it against powers of any weight which are determined to defy it, this is largely a cudgel to be wielded in political agitation. Where major powers are involved, there is no justice but the victor's, and without a victor, there will be no justice at all.
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