(Split) Should we feel sympathy for Iraqis (or other non-Europeans/non-"whites") killed in warfare?

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Originally Posted by Edelmann

Why would that be?

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Xtians.

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I feel sympathy for dogs, which requires no conception that dogs are my "equal", merely the assumption that they have roughly the same capacity for pain.

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Actually, I prefer to be around dogs and cats more than two-legged vermin.

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Originally Posted by IdealUral

Yes and no, but there was always a form of ethics in warfare. It might have been a more primitive form than the current one that is hold universal and in fact is based on Christian morality.

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Ethics is warfare? So is it more ethical to shoot someone in the head or drop a 2,000 lbs bomb on their house in the middle of the night? Again, is it more ethical to hit them with a flamethrower or run them through with a bayonet?

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Everyone agrees that Dresden and Hiroshima/Nagasaki were war crimes. As the majority of the people who suffered were clearly the innocents.

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I don't agree, so that means there is no "everyone." I don't know where this idea of "civilians" came from. There are no such things in war. Every man, woman, and child is a war resource of the enemy nation. Destroying the "home front" is just as important as destroying the military front.

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True, though the move is very much unethical and almost semi-genocidal in this case.

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The ultimate aim of war is genocide.

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I see, it makes sense since you don't feel sympathy to others, you don't require it from the others.

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I don't feel sympathy for humans, no.