“Generally stated, a just war must be waged 1) by a legitimate government, 2) for a legitimate cause, 3) with a legitimate purpose, 4) with consideration of benefits and costs, 5) with means proportionate to the offense, and 6) recognizing the difference between civilians and soldiers.” -J. Douma, The Ten Commandments
BTW NOTE: these seem pretty subjective, hence the difficulties in defining a ‘just war.’
According to UNICEF: “Violence kills one child every 5 minutes” somewhere in the world.
For more follow this link: http://www.wired-gov.net/wg/news.nsf/articles/Violence+kills+one+child+every+five+minutes+warns+Unicef+UK+21102014164018?open
“Anger, the inner arsonist, put a match to her brain.” –Jane Kenyon
“Back in 1931 one of ‘America’s most wanted’ was Two-Gun Crowley. Two-Gun was charged with a string of brutal homicides, including a cop-killing. That spring he was finally captured after a fierce gun battle in his girlfriend’s apartment. When the police searched him, they found a blood-spattered note that read, ‘Under my coat is a weary heart, but a kind one, one that would do nobody any harm.'” -Phil Ryken, Written in Stone, pg. 146
“The purpose of this [6th] commandment is: the Lord has bound mankind by a certain unity; hence each man ought to concern himself with the safety of all.” John Calvin
“the foetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is almost a monstrous crime to rob it of the life which is has not yet begun to enjoy.” -John Calvin, Commentary on the Four Last Books of Moses, Calvin’s Commentaries, pp. 41-42.
A Pilgrim's Theology 