One definition of justified homicide is that in certain circumstances killing is condoned when it prevents “greater harm to innocents” (Jokic 2003). Soldiers may kill one person during a battle in the hopes of saving many innocent people in their home county. Soldiers only know what they are told to them by their superiors much like how we civilians only really know what the news or other ‘unreliable’ sources tell us. Soldiers are told who the enemy is and who is trying to prevent the soldiers and their loved ones back home from being safe or having freedom. Soldiers then do anything in their power to stop these enemies from hurting us- the ‘innocents’. These statements prove that soldiers are warranted in killing other people because they are doing it for the common good of their
One definition of justified homicide is that in certain circumstances killing is condoned when it prevents “greater harm to innocents” (Jokic 2003). Soldiers may kill one person during a battle in the hopes of saving many innocent people in their home county. Soldiers only know what they are told to them by their superiors much like how we civilians only really know what the news or other ‘unreliable’ sources tell us. Soldiers are told who the enemy is and who is trying to prevent the soldiers and their loved ones back home from being safe or having freedom. Soldiers then do anything in their power to stop these enemies from hurting us- the ‘innocents’. These statements prove that soldiers are warranted in killing other people because they are doing it for the common good of their