Surely any killing is premeditated, soldiers train to do so and there is certainly some underlying indoctrination (sorry to say) with at least some of the soldiers being trained, if not before enlisting, certainly within the military itself.
I have no qualms about protecting my own life, but i would not view it as purely self defence.
All killings are wrong, there is no reason justified enough in the universe to say otherwise, Law is simply consensus and logic, which can be fallible and sometimes simply archaic.
I realise this is Idealistic, it is, everyone should be at least striving for it, I wont presume the human ego to change, nor mental/psychological illness, but there are solutions to these problems, yet we have cretins wishing everything to be solved by flinging metal at 900 m/s into a skull to be the only cure...that is not only a disservice to the victim, but yourself for even implying it.
Call it leftist, it doesn't really matter, I do also have the belief that people should do what they do best, if that happens to be killing others, well that's unfortunate, especially so since we are sapient beings and can act on our wisdom, thus choosing to be a killer over something else is rather dire, no matter the reason why.
I could go further into it, especially about doing all the unfortunate acts for the elite of the world, but I suppose that could simply come under the previous belief, perhaps the elite are just good at that.
I suppose this rant may have holes in it, I am rather cold and it is late, so forgive me if I seem aimless.
