The ultimate question... THE question asked by scholars and peasants alike

[DJCowboy]

Why is it that if a man kills another man in battle it's called heroic, yet if he kills a man in the heat of passion it's called murder?

 

[xfire]

Ex-squeeze me? Baking powder?

 

[D-rock]

I known people that didn't think killing anybody in battle was anywhere near "heroic". That includes people that have had the misfortune of needing to do it.

 

[DJCowboy]

You know, if you stab a man in the dead of winter, steam will rise up from the wounds. Indians believed it was his soul escaping from his body

 

[larss]

If you save or attempt to save another persons life in the heat of battle, that mat be heroic. Killing the enemy is your job in the normal course of events of a battle, and this is not heroism. Soldiers are trained, almost brain washed, to be able to kill another human being - it is not something that most of us can do naturally.

 

[gunslingingbird]

Because one has political interests at stake, while the other is personal. The law will literally let you get away with murder, so long as it suits its interests.

 

[DOA82]

I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die? Why do they come to me to die?"

 

[adeptblue]

Good way to keep your hands warm.

 

[Sam Fisher]

Why is it that if a man kills another man in battle it's called heroic, yet if he kills a man in the heat of passion it's called murder?

Killing someone in battle may or may not be heroic, depending on the situation.

For example: Being pinned down and returning fire and killing one of the enemy is survival/self defense.

For Example: Taking it upon yourself to rush the enemy while taking fire and killing the enemy is heroic for sure. He may have saved the lives of many of his fellow warriors.

Killing in the heat of passion can sometimes be charged as Aggrivated Manslaughter.

For Example: Trevor comes home from work and finds his wife taking it up the ass and the pussy, and sucking cock by three of the neighbors. Trevor freaks out, and pulls his legally concealed handgun out and kills his wife. Then without a blink of the eye he empties the remaining 13 bullets into his neighbors.

His defense? He didn't mind loaning his lawn mower to the neighbor friends, but his wife was off limits.

 

[Pattheprovo]

I once killed a man with a pitch fork. He didn't believe in my god.

 

[LukeEl]

Brick killed a guy with a trident!

 

[PirateKing]

Nationalism.

 

[kelleycabbana]

put very well!

Killing someone in battle may or may not be heroic, depending on the situation.

For example: Being pinned down and returning fire and killing one of the enemy is survival/self defense.

For Example: Taking it upon yourself to rush the enemy while taking fire and killing the enemy is heroic for sure. He may have saved the lives of many of his fellow warriors.

Killing in the heat of passion can sometimes be charged as Aggrivated Manslaughter.

For Example: Trevor comes home from work and finds his wife taking it up the ass and the pussy, and sucking cock by three of the neighbors. Trevor freaks out, and pulls his legally concealed handgun out and kills his wife. Then without a blink of the eye he empties the remaining 13 bullets into his neighbors.

His defense? He didn't mind loaning his lawn mower to the neighbor friends, but his wife was off limits.