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To: FaultLine who started this subject	3/22/2003 1:29:06 PM
From: paul_philp	Read Replies (1) of 281500

The question of what differentiates American warriors from terrorists is often raised. Here is a thoughtful attempt, by someone who teach ethics to America's warriors, to answer that question. Personally, I am glad that the question is being asked. Paul When Teaching the Ethics of War Is Not Academic chronicle.com While there are many differences among them, warrior codes tend to share one point of agreement: the insistence that what distinguishes warriors from murderers is that warriors accept a set of rules governing when and how they kill. When they are trained for war, warriors are given a mandate by their society to take lives. But they must learn to take only certain lives in certain ways, at certain times, and for certain reasons. Otherwise, they become indistinguishable from murderers and will find themselves condemned by the very societies they were trained to serve. Individuals can fight for an objectively bad cause or a corrupt regime and still be warriors, as long as they have a warrior's code that requires them to observe the rules of war. There can be no honor in any conflict for those who believe that they have no moral obligation to restrain their behavior in any way.

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