A Levite and his concubine

[Lek]

What is your authority for saying that nothing justifies genocide?

Do you really have to ask?

Killing off a whole people for whatever reason is inherently wrong. My moral code screams at the mere thought of it. That's my authority. I don't need anything else for my reasoning.

If you think differently, please elaborate. But don't come up with the sacrificing children shit from the bible again, since I've heard it so many times before. It still doesn't justify killing a whole people.

In other words, your authority is your own conscience, but someone else's conscience may justify it. Actually, if you look at evolution, it appears that the fittest survive. If you're the one committing the genocide, it may benefit you greatly. But there is no hard scientific evidence showing that genocide is unjustified. I get my ultimate morality from the bible. The bible tells me that genocide is immoral, but it also tells me that governments have the authority to punish wrongdoers by treating them in ways that would be otherwise be immoral. God is our creator and ultimate authority and he has the right to punish us for our wrongdoings. The greatest thing is that because of his love for us, instead of the penalty of eternal death that we should suffer, he paid the price for us. So now, instead we have eternal life, even though we must suffer certain consequences for our sin, such as living in this messed up world.