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Soldiers: Thou Shalt Not Kill

Soldiers: Thou shalt not kill

Consider the following quote and place your thoughts:

"The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is to shoot his fellow men. In youth he may have learned the command, 'Thou shalt not kill,' but the ruler takes the boy just as he enters manhood and teaches him that his highest duty is to shoot a bullet through his neighbor's heart - and this, unmoved by passion or feeling or hatred, and without the least regard to right or wrong, but simply because his ruler gives the word."
-- Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil

Kill Shalt Thou Soldiers

As a soldier I was not told to go out and kill our enemies. We are told to go out and win the battle. We have learned that is you wound your enemy it takes two others to carry him out of the battle. If you kill him then his two buddies are still there. The M-16 assault rifle that we use is a weapon designed to wound not kill.

I think that the quote of "Thall shalt not kill" is a good way to live. If you are in the military at times you do can not live by that. Wether you feel the war is righteous or not is irrevelant when you have someone shooting at you.