Are Weapons and Killing Justifiable in War?

Daniel: To win a war in the pre modern period, it was all about man power. The main factor in whether your people would live or die was numbers. So you either had to kill or enslave - that's just the nature of war. In other words, if killing people can sometimes be justified, then slavery can also sometimes be justified. We're better off with slavery at the very least because no one needs to defend themselves from noks. Daniels' five minute response is posted below.

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