Christians, Prove Your God Is Good

[Chad32]

Our need to get along as a social species necessitates coming up with rules to get along together. These are morals. Morals most often fall apart when interacting with other groups, for instance when we executed japanese soldiers for waterboarding out troops in WW2, but our government claims waterboarding isn't torture when we do it to other people.

That is how morals come to be within a group, but also shows why they are subjective.

Sonny boy you ever study WWII, you know what they actually did to our soldiers, unprovoked attack on a sleeping navy without a declaration of war. The Bataan Death March, which came after a undeclared attack on the Philippines.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/bataandeathmarch.htm

The Japanese were as brutal if not more than the Germans, they deserved everything that came their way. Water torture was only one of many charges against Japanese soldiers the water torture they used was a more harsh treatment than that used to day. Go look at the trial records as I did and see what they did. I know about WWII, I had uncles there, even one at Pearl Harbor the day they attacked. I saw what those days did to men.

GC

Yes, I know what they did. Whether they deserved to be executed or not wasn't my point. I'm just demonstrating that one of the things we executed them for is water torture, but when we start doing it to other people, suddenly they tell us it isn't torture. Morals change when someone is from outside of the group. Just the fact that you got defensive about it helps prove my point. We do it to a lesser degree than they did it, so it's ok.