[Serious] Good vs Evil

[Chad32]

If a young child runs up to a group of people, and blows them up with a bomb, they're as much an innocent victim as the people they blow up. The evil ones are the adults who convinced a kid to carry an explosive, and detonate it. Granted, someone could be born a sociopath, and go the Michael Myers route, and get a kick out of causing pain, but those are some small odds.

Would I be able to shoot the kid? Maybe not. That's why my job doesn't entail holding a firearm, and making those kinds of decisions. It would likely be my last act in the armed forces if I absolutely had to pull the trigger.

you are speaking to a state of mind of the child. something you can not know, unless you look at history. you assume because children you know of that age are open books of blank sheets Child soldiers are like other children. Child soldiers are not atomotons blindly carrying out acts they can not understand the consenquences of... they have been trained to think and out maneuver their enemies. enemies who have been targeted since they could walk.

There is little to no difference between a child soldier and one who is of 'fighting age.' The civial war bore this out, the revolutionary war also bore this out. They fought bled and died just like their older counter parts, they faced death they faced hardship and pain, the same hardship and pain the veterans faced. Granted their jobs may have been different (drummer or fife player) but the drums where critical in fog of war communication. in essence they order the company or sometimes the battalion to fire a volley, free fire, advance bayonet charge or retreat. these 'boys' where given a monumental task of litterally pulling the trigger on hundreds of weapons just by playing the orders given. or f the messed up they could have cause the deaths of hundreds of their fellow soldiers. so to say a child soldier is like the ones you are familiar with is nuts.

Just look at some of the documentaries of the warring tribes currently in africa who employ child riflemen. some as young as 8. those kids are war harden monsters who could dispatch any of us before we knew it.

My point is evil know no age limitations. if their is consciousness evil can exist.

only the biggest fools wrapped up in their own self righteousness pretend evil can not exist. if people could just be honest with them selves they could label the men who train children to be combatants that put them in harms way or to be sacrificed as human bombs, if the self righteous could be honest they could see those men who do this sort of stuff as evil. But because the self righteous aligned themselves with evil inorder to invalidate God's righteous standards they can not identify anything evil as evil, which means they are only able to identify God's righteousness as evil.

Which is consistent with what the bible says about the last days. The evil men will change the standards of 'morality' and good will be come evil and evil will become good.

Yes, they have been trained. Indoctrinated, brainwashed, and robbed of their childhood. I still place full blame on the adults who did so. Not helpless children who had no real choice. Your god may not place value in children, and a lot of Humans don't either. But that doesn't make it the child's fault. A six year old who uses a gun to kill someone, on an adult's orders is not evil, because there's no real agency there. There's no choice. If he doesn't pull the trigger, he will be killed by his superiors, or coerced until he does it. Even adults can be victims of culture. 

Usually when people do bad things, it's because of pressure. They don't have enough food, or money, or someone above them is forcing them to. Honestly, there's probably much less evil in the world than you think, if you dig deep enough.