How would you feel if you realized that your neighbor has killed several people before?

And how would your feeling change if he even was payed to commit his killings? Yes, if he kills for a living.

Let me start this with a quote:

A soldier is a person who kills people he doesn’t know, for reasons he doesn’t understand, on the orders of people he doesn’t respect. A soldier’s entire duty is to kill on command. He obeys orders regardless of whether he agrees with them, and may only disobey if they're 'unlawful'.

If we feel that war is wrong and killing is murder wouldn’t it mean that soldiers are murderers?

How about our friends or maybe even our family and relatives who joined the army and went into combat?

Are they exempt from any guild because they are our good buddies and childhood friends, or will we confront them with their deeds?

Or are we arguing that all those countless lives where taken and lost to keep us safe and free?

So after all those killings, how safe are we feeling now and how free do we think we actually are? Getting it already?

Without being in self-defense, taking someone's life in the name of freedom, democracy or liberation or in whatever name and under whatever slogan or banner is still killing. Wouldn’t we be hypocrites if we excuse murder when done by the people we like?

Or because it was committed by the ones who are on the same side than us?

Killing for the sake of a nation, which is simply said just immoral and wrong.

Does anybody really feel it makes it ethically right because they were paid to commit their killings? Paid by the taxes which we are paying, so actually they were paid by ourselves. Right, we are financing the great killing!

Except in self-defense there can't be any reason when killing is justifiable.

How much can we bend our own moral standards if we have them to apply to our own people?

How can we justify bringing pain and suffering, death and annihilation over innocent people?

The end cannot justify the means. And most of the times isn’t even the end justifiable at all.

So just ask yourself: