[B-Chan]

War itself is immoral because it violated God’s commandment “Thou Shalt Not Kill”. Once Society has stepped across that line, there is no such thing as a sliding scale of immorality: sin is sin and you don’t get bonus points with God by being only slightly less sinful than the other guy.

So if a country goes to war, it has already crossed over that moral hurdle: the next-best thing to be done is to win quickly and decisively to minimize the suffering and transgression.

This is essentially my position as well. In the modern age, all war is evil. With this in mind, when war is unavoidable, we should do what is necessary to end it as quickly as possible.

However, I also insist that we face the moral reality of what we do in war. Instead of making a cowardly attempt to justify the deaths of civilians we caused during the bombings of Japan, we need to look at the innocent lives we took during the war with Japan and say "Yes, we murdered them. May God forgive us."

[DieHard the Hunter]

> However, I also insist that we face the moral reality of what we do in war. Instead of making a cowardly attempt to justify the deaths of civilians we caused during the bombings of Japan, we need to look at the innocent lives we took during the war with Japan and say “Yes, we murdered them. May God forgive us.”

Amen. We are in agreement there.