re: #3 Obdicut
I don’t entirely agree with him but I appreciate the hell out of his point of view.
Nor do I agree. Killing people is never a good thing, but sometimes it is the only thing that can stop unjust aggression. But I don’t really respect the pacifist point of view. I find supremely unrealistic and demoralizing when there are enemies who have to be killed. But my own thought on such cases can be based summed up by a song by The Police:
“Once that you’ve decided that you’ve decided on a killing,
First, you make a stone of your heart…”
I’m not saying I want or like the idea of killing, but I do think its a rare necessity and when truly needed should be done as ruthlessly as needs be.