Same scenario

When soldiers respect each other but must kill one another, they fight respectfully

wtf is that supposed to mean

If I stick my sword into your gut respectfully, or disrespectfully, the end result is exactly the same

You bleed to death, probably

In pain

I need to get better at explaining things

I tried dumbing this down too

Do you understand what respect is?

Yes

How it is earned?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma-yuddha

Respect is not earned in war, that much I know

It is earned through seeing the person, the human

Treating someone as a person

Showing respect for life

You can respect someone if they have refined themselves and to the degree to which they did

Acts of war aren't respectful, war has no purpose outside of pragmatic reasons

I don't like how you don't comprehend this, but I can't hate you for it

I just don't see any respectful acts in war

War is essentially nothing but sanctioned slaughter

At least one side is in the wrong, sometimes both

And the other side is acting out of neccessity

Respect doesn't play into this

It's almost like there's a spiritual aspect to war which you're completely disregarding

Have you been in a war before?

War is not what it used to be

So the answer is no?

Correct

Then how do you know what is and what isn't respectful or spiritual about war?

Research and what my father and his friends have taught me about war

You know army and marine families are common, right?

My doubt concerns your claim that this can be researched, and your claim that you were taught that spirituality is a thing in war

I've seen what war does to people

As have I

War turns good men bad

There's nothing spiritual about it, unless you mean demons

But not always

As I said, war is not what it used to be

Some aspects, yes, but it is nothing like what it was hundreds of years ago

Your father wasn't in one of those other wars that were different