What's the difference between a soldier, an assassin, and a mercenary?

[onelifecrisis]

@Aramike?

Now who's confusing/avoiding the issue?

Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

Secondly, even if we assume for the sake of argument that killing is sometimes a good thing, there are still moral problems with being a soldier who kills. For a start, the soldier may (and probably will) be required to do killing that is immoral in addition to any "moral killing" that he is required to do, and - perhaps more importantly - he does not know which he will be doing when he agrees to do it.

Response?

Originally Posted by CastleBravo

It takes many hours to remove the built in reluctance to take human life, unless you are an abortion doctor sworn to uphold the hypocratic oath.
Part of basic training is about breaking down the natural instinct which is built into everyone reguarding killing other human beings.

Still think it's as simple as 2+2=4?