Quote Originally Posted by leo9 View Post
A reasonable reading is that when their laws said "Thou Shalt Not Kill" they understood it to mean "...Your Own People."
From what I've read, the commandment "Thou Shalt Not Kill" would have been more properly translated as, "Thou Shalt Not Commit Murder." A subtle difference, perhaps, but when you consider outsiders to be non-people it makes a difference. Killing in war is not considered murder. Killing a heretic is not considered murder. Killing a slave is not considered murder. Convenient, that.