Verified answer

Murder is when you kill someone for personal gain. While there have been a few soldiers that have crossed the line and gone in for revenge killings, the average soldier is a professional doing his job.

Having said that you can always go back to the Bible to argue your cause, as it was written, it stated " Thou shall not commit murder" this was changed to "Thou shall not kill" using this argument you can show a correlation between the two.

A good debate is effective for getting people to think about what they really believe and why!

By the way I was a soldier and even following orders taking a life is not easy to do, but sometimes necessary.

When a soldier acts outside of a lawful order and kills an individual, such as an unarmed civilian, then he or she commits murder and can be tried for murder.

A good example of this is the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam war. A more current example is what happened in Afghanistan when members of the Army's 101st Airborne raped a 14 year old girl and then executed her and her whole family in cold blood.

However, if a soldier kills in combat, within the accepted norms and protocols of combat, then he or she is not considered a murderer.

How about quite simply that they are out on the battlefields killing innocent people. I mean when is the last time there was a war without a civilian casualty? Im not sure there has even been one and so if you consider the killing of an unarmed (and not dangerous) individual murder then you can make a claim that soldiers are murderers. Not saying I support this argument but it is one you can make

Murder rates for civilians are nearly twice that of military personnel. So since you are a civilian, does that make you a murderer? Your premise is a flawed concept. Individuals commit crimes. Your job or what you wear does not make you do so. Its like trying say that all soldiers like vanilla ice cream and only vanilla ice cream.

I have been in combat, alot. I have never murdered anyone.

No the military is a bunch of pussy's, and why because you cannot lock and load until ordered to or fired upon!!!

If you need evidence you will have to find some Muslim extremist site on the internet that claims soldiers are killing civilians.

I do not believe soldiers are murderers. Without them, where would our country be today? What would have happened to the Jews during WWII, or to our citizens after 9/11?

They fight to keep us free, and if that means killing those who threaten freedom and morality and safety, then so be it.

What a ridiculous debate to have! To kill in combat is not murder. Killing someone by accident because they are being used as human shields is nor murder, just because a few bad apples commit a crime doesn't make all troops guilty of that crime.

Why do you think soldiers are murderers? If you don't have any evidence how did you form that opinion?

She desires to spend time distant places. each little thing handed Germany and your ineffective meat. a advantageous lunch on the Finger Nail production facility in BAG will make her see what we've been up against. I helped unmask a grave website that had handicapped babies shot & buried in it over 312 of there blessed souls. Ask her approximately bodies contemporary in alley procedures with antiarmor mines under them so whilst there moved, you comprehend the rest. we don't pass out basically killing enable her comprehend. ninety% of our troops there had to be domicile with households. We didnt ask for some dirt Bag to threaten the international. We basically replied the call as quickly as we've been asked. that's what we do and who we are. we are people who stand in the shadows and walk that cord. we are American infantrymen.

As long as the soldier who does adn would kill another is within a legal order no.