In war situations, should children + women with weapons be killed like a man?

it depends on the view point. The situation is different for the aggressor and the transgressed. To defend their freedom and country when attacked, young and old like can take up arms.

Civilians who usually have the least to gain in a war are usually hit the hardest. :( I feel we should be selective (lol... as if we really have a choice) even when we come to the military forces. Those who did not voluntarily enter the military should be spared to. We should only have the war take place between the voluntary military and the evil politician drivers of both sides.

It is really awful to kill anyone irrespective of any types whether man women or children. This is all against humanity. I feel all these war from world is vanished. Using children to carry bombs is really inhuman.

When you are in a war zone and/or you are in a state of war, you kill anyone and everyone with weapons who are not on your side. Women and children no longer exist in their roles anymore because anyone with a weapon is a soldier trained to kill. Always remember that. There is no time to think or to have mercy because in a war situation, you either kill or be killed. That's why the US solders suffer so many casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq. The terrorists hide behind the burquas. Can you tell who are women and who are not when you see a "ninja in loose fitting clothes"? Yet, dressed as women (the US soldiers have no way to identify the enemy properly because the of the burquas they wear, they can shoot at US soldiers who are sitting ducks. And weapons are easily hidden beneath the loose fitting clothes. So, war is war. That's why it is called a war and not peaceful times where you can safely take your time to identify people as men, women or children. But if the people carry no weapons, then, not only women and children, but the men should not be shot at. But guerillas and other anti-government elements always use women and especially children to carry on the war and it bleeds my heart to see an 8-year-old child (male and female) indoctrinated in violent hatred and forced to carry a weapon 5 times their weight. Tragic. Back to the burquas, the only way we can identify women and children (the real mccoy) is to ask those wearing the loose fitting clothes and heavily veiled to at least let you look at their faces. Or use women soldiers to search every burqua wearer so that you won't invade the sanctity of the Muslim religion. You can use Muslim women to do the searching as I know in Iraq and Afghanistan, the women on the side of the new governments are Muslim too.

Kill those women and children without batting an eye or they shall claim your life for theirs. Why should your conscience bother you at all? This is now a situation which calls for self preservation. The choice is between your life or theirs - and we all know that this is no choice at all because, it will always have to be our life over theirs. Those women and children have taken up arms because, they have been trained to do it. Do not ever entertain the idea that they are forced into it. They like doing it. If only you could listen in to them and understand them fully as they relate their adventures...

Everything is right in WAR and LOVE. DO you agree?!

In times of war, you don't know in one country where you can live longer or get easily be killed by your country's enemy. If any woman or children has been let by their country to go combat and armed themselves to kill enemy, you had the right to kill them or else you get killed but for God's sake, let them do the first move, if not, why are you going to kill them? Maybe they were only forced to armed themselves but in their hearts they don't want to harm or kill anybody.

I would have a hard time killing women and children, but if they are armed and there is no way around it - then you do what you have to do. There are some countries that know it would be hard for men to kill women and chldren and they are counting on that heisitation. If its the belief of the women and children that they will be rewarded in the next life, they don't care. There isn't a way to stop and show them another philosophy. Personally, I think that a government or group that uses women and children this way are cowards.

i have seen children poses as a hitman in our country..its not morally right and i have pity on them..but how can we prevent it...the government must do some actions on how to pacify a rebellion if there is any or war as seen on tvs(newscast)..peace negotiation must take place to prevent wars and the use of innocent boys..

If our lives are at risk we most likely will overlook what we may not have done under other occations. If another human...mand,woman,or child....is trying to kill me I have no sympothy for them so yes I would. If however they were not a threat but simply caught up in the horror of war then ther is no excuse for killing them. All to often however after seeing your buddies die around you you tend to lose sight of who the real enemy is.

In war situations no civilians should be harmed .. that said the fact that women and children have been used to carry bombs or use arms, it becomes a tough call. I mean - and this coming from a pacifist is going to sound strange - but if the woman made the decision to carry on with the bomb or weapon knowing and understanding what harm she could do with it, I feel that in that case there should be no difference in dealing with her or a man.

It is immoral, but that's the way terrorists and crazy people fight. They try to hit us at our most vulnerable. I would have a hard time killing children and women, but not men. But, the women and children are being forced, or raised into a life like that ever since they have been born. It just seems cruel, but they won't hesitate to kill us.

There is a huge difference between children and women. Women are adults and are trained to soldiers in many countries, including mine (Sweden) and other nordic countries as well. We are democracies and the sexes are equal. So women soldiers are offcource in harms way just like their male companions. Children are a totally different matter. They can be forced to soldiery, but they can newer be real soldiers. Children are children and should allways be treated as such. The UN has treaties about this matter.

i believe that children should not be killed like men because if we killed children, we would be killing our future. however, women are a different story. historically, women have always been fighting for suffrage like the right to vote and work. If women truly want to be treated equally like men, they should be, in war situations, killed just like a normal man.

You have really brought up a very valid situation which needs pondering over. But keeping today's trends and mentality of people in mind it seems that there is no effective solution for the riddle you have put up. I agree with you that any teen or child or woman should not be killed even when at war. But I want you to remember one thing that this is an ethical question while wars are fought without ethics. As the saying goes: every thing is fair in love and war. And any such thing which qualifies any act, be it bestiality or eagerness to defect and kill can not be handled with ethics. Wars are not fought with ethics, but enemies are surmounted with ethics.