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  • War is a crime too. Only the semantics change.
  • It depends if you are on the wining side. Often the losers of war are tried for war crimes.
  • ...China, The Congo, Nigeria, Russia, Korea(North and South), Germany, Vietnam, India, Canda, Chile, Mexico, etc....All of these countries have armies....all of these countries have been in war...do not make something like war a race issue
  • There is as big a difference between an army that defends its homeland and one that commits aggression as there is between a rap-ee and a rap-ist. And I'd like to hear more about this nation you've got in mind that has never gone to war. What color were they?
  • There's a few problems with this question that make it near impossible to answer. Firstly: although there are many individuals who personally consider abortion to be murder, in most countries in the Western world it is legal and therefore the claim that "it's considered murder" isn't really accurate. Secondly: When blacks or whites kill in the streets, it is generally considered a crime. In some areas there may be cause for concern about unequal treatment based on race, but I don't think you will find many people who think its OK for a white person to walk up to someone in the street and shoot them. Thirdly: When white men organise armies and "murder en masse" it isn't always considered legal- I seem to remember hearing we weren't that impressed by Hitler. And that, as already mentioned, countries with mainly non-white populations (most of the African countries for a start) also have sent armies into war- in fact war in Africa is often much more horrific (if you can talk about such things in degrees) than the tactics employed by US and European armies- in many African conflicts rape and torture of civilians is seen as a legitimate weapon of war. With the greatest respect, it seems as if you're trying to create a race/ gender issue where really there isn't one.
  • When wars are fought, wepons are used that are made by arms manufacturers that are powerful multinational companies. The more men fight, the more weapons are sold, and the higher their profits soar. This is "big business" that "creates more good jobs" and "improves economies". War thus takes on a more "respectable" and useful appearence. Who are the guilty parties? Like anything else, just follow the money. I agree with some of the comments that your question includes generalizations.
  • A fetus isn't a fully formed, independently breathing human. It depends on its mother for moment-to-moment survival, its very much still a part of the mother. Abortion is a hot-button issue because we tend to think in absolutist terms: either something IS a human or ISN't a human. But that's not how reality works at all, reality doesn't make hard-and-fast distinctions between things. The human mind does that (by misusing its ability to form concepts. But that's another subject.) Murder in the streets is both immoral and illegal pretty much everywhere, regardless of race. So I don't think that part of the argument has much weight. War is another matter altogether: indeed its hard to find a good example of a "morally defensible war". WWII and the suppression of Nazism is the most commonly cited example, but the more one studies the actual details of history, the more the moral justification starts to get lost in the infinitely complex web of lies, popular untruths, and criminal deeds by all sides. And yet its hard to say that we should not have suppressed Hitler with military force. On the other hand, its easy to find morally indefensible wars (e.g. Iraq) which are being aggressively defended by many people, often in ways that have religious overtones. (God bless America and its preemptive strikes on those who control its oil-rich future colonies!) While we could say that we're in Iraq to help the poor oppressed Iraqis, it doesn't take much imagination to stretch that justification and ask why we're ignoring the slaughter in Darfur, or why we ignored the horrific slaughter in Rwanda in 1994? Its simple: those people didn't have anything we wanted. The Iraqis have oil. So we "help" the Iraqis, and we ignore Darfur. If we wanted just to help oppressed people, we wouldn't be so discriminating. So yes, war is "legal", but only because the lawmaking structure is the same entity propagating the wars. That doesn't make it moral, and those who see clearly in the matter should consider whether that clarity of vision confers a responsibility to speak out.
  • murder is the killing of a defenseless organism(in this case a human).So abortion is the killing(if you're against abortion) of a defenseless fetus. murder in the streets (regardless of race) is usually someone attacking a relatively defenseless indiviual. When armies fight (this is rationalization) neither party is defenseless. though one may be superior, both sides can fight.
  • When men and women are made into soliders, they are broken down and just answer "Yes, Sir" "No, Sir"... then they can be told to do anything and they will do it. It's not moral or correct to kill people in war, it's just accepted by society. Society is warped.
  • It's the way the world works. It's the organization of everything.
  • because our society is shit. does war really solve anything? NO. it makes the "enemy" pissed off even more from when the fight started because they're losing all their people. it just causes pain and hatred. abortion is one thing, because the baby isn't even developed yet AND hopefully done by the right means, but any other type of violence is pointless.
  • Well if you have to think about abortion, you should have wrapped that sucker up, and or tookt he pill. If you phucked up enough to do it without protection, you should take care of the responsibility, but its your problem not mine. I'm not prolife or proabortion. I don't care what you do as long as it wasn't mine. War lets talk about that. You wouldn't have day if night wouldn't fall. Or life without death. We often have peace with countries for a couple years and then what happens Chaos, then war. It happens its a cycle, like the cycle of day/night life/death and love/hatered. its here and always will be. That other thing about Whites and blacks is that supposed to be racist cause I don't know of a place anymore where whites can kill and get away with it. If I were to kill someone I would get 20-40 years the same as a black man. I hate that the black community has to deal with a lot of raceism, but whites go threw it too. E.g. I like that Obama is President, but I hate this new health care reform BS. Like I said there is a cycle and each have its good and bads. if you didn't understand this, thats ok no one ever understands what I say but I do. Good luck and have a nice/bad day whichever YOU decide.

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