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brad p
I have a BS in Business Managment and a BA in economics. Currently working on my JD.
is it murder for someone to kill another on orders from the government?
that is, is state sanctioned killing okay and non-government killing not okay, or is all murder just wrong?
29 AnswersLaw & Ethics1 decade agoIs it ethical to commit murder to save someone you care about?
hypothetical, you must kill an innocent bystander to save a close friend. Is it ethical to kill that innocent person?
3 AnswersLaw & Ethics1 decade agoIs it ethical to kill innocent civilians to achieve a military objective more quickly?
In World War 2 the US killed over a hundred thousand people in the firebombing of Dresden, Germany. The city had no military targets and was filled with refugees fleeing the approaching Russian army at the end of the war. The US government along with the British boimbed the city into the ground, creating a firestorm that consumed the city and all its residents. The excuse for this was that it would help end the war faster.
The same excuse was used again in the conventional bombing of Tokyo which also created a firestorm, killing tens of thousands of civilians.
It was used again on Heroshima and Nagasaki, this time with nukes.
In the Vietnam war the US used napalm, a form of sticky gasoline, which were dumped on civilians and then set on fire. In the Vietnam war the US dumped over 2,300,000,000 tons of TNT, almost all of it on civilian targets. The justification was the same, to end fighting and make the enemy surender.
My question is, who here thinks that this iis justified?
9 AnswersLaw & Ethics1 decade ago