regulate human behavior according to objective standards, rather than letting man deal with man
Objective law is the highest standard we can have, IMO. I got this started by pointing out that "Christian Law", IE: "Turning the other cheek", has always failed. No "Christian" country uses it. The other method that we use is called "Penology", putting criminals in prisons and trying to rehabilitate them. Rehabilitating them has been an utter failure. Locking them up has certainly helped.
When it comes to War, we are still in a quandary. War is by it's nature immoral. Theologians and Philosophers have diced it up for centuries with no real answer, IMO. We have tomes written on "Just Wars" and they are about as logical as the old battle cry, "God with us!".
Where I am at is if you attack someone's Government, Officials, or institutions, it's war. If you attack civilians of the society you hate randomly, it is terrorism.
For instance, when the Palestinians killed the Minister of Tourism of Israel, that was war. When they set off a bomb in the street, that's terrorism. |
