How do witches and pagans in the military approach "harm none"?

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@ Faye

How can doing ANYTHING to something that is dead "harm" it?

But in general, if you don't want to have to do harm to others, DON'T join the military.
 
There are many approaches to this I am sure, but I tend to see paganism as having a general tendency toward nonviolence much as Janism has a nonviolence ethic. Furthermore, I think the Reclaiming tradition of paganism is openly political, antiwar, and nonviolent. This isn't a criticism of anyone who is in or has been in the military or is pagan (I belong to both of those categorizations). I am looking for a certain cohort: has been or is in the military and practice witchcraft.
 
The same way Christians in the military approach "thou shalt not kill". It's for your country and it's your job. You signed up for it, so you are obviously okay with killing.

I also know many Pagans who eat dead animals. How does that fit in with "harm none"? It doesn't.
 
What makes you think all Pagans follow the Wiccan rede?

I believe in protecting what is important - self, family, liberty, etc... And if that means killing to defend that, so be it. Kill swiftly and without mercy, I say.

There's a time and place for everything, for peace and for war.
 
You seem to have a rather lopsided view of what a pagan is. Some pagan religions, particularly in Meso-America, actively sought human sacrifices.

That being said, any person who has a religious compulsion against non-violence and yet joins the military probably thinks in terms of the "greater good". For example, what would cause more harm; killing some soldiers in an attempt to stop a mad man like Hitler or allowing him to run rampant and kill those he considered "inferior" because of some sense of moral obligation to cause no harm?

IMHO, in some scenarios it is necessary to go to war in order to reduce the harm that may occur.
 
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