Every killing tears the soul?

[Michell Thitathan]

No: HPFGUIDX 141625

> Geoff:  <snip> Murder is committed by someone with 
> the aim and intent of doing away with someone else. Accidental 
> deaths - which under UK law usually count as manslaughter - and 
> deaths in battle fall outside this category.
> 
>a_svirn:
>And how would you describe killing on a battlefield? I'd say the 
>intent is exactly the same – "doing away with someone else". 

 
CH3ed: 
I'd say the difference is in the context. In a state of war you are operating on the mutual assumption that if you don't kill the other side first, they will kill you. I think in the battlefield, unless the other side's soldier has given himself up and is disarmed and taken into custody as prisoner of war, you can safely label killing him self-defense.