Nicole, you're still confused and making blanket generalizations that cannot be supported.

Not to people then. The concept of "murder" didn't extend to such "inferior" beings then.

Which "people"? White christian Europeans? ALL white, christian europeans? Africans? Native Americans? Arabs? A small segment of the world population may indeed have held the view you state view, but it was hardly universal.

Please- you have no idea whatsoever about "my moral framework" or where or how I was brought up- all that is beside the point. The question is not "my personal concept of morality"- its about cultural and moral relativism run amok.

Amos:
it was
perfectly normal... to declare a war and mobilize armies ... purely for political gain... We have evolved very different standards today

Sure we have. Especially considering Grenada, the Falklands, Gulf Wars I & II, etc. But I suppose you'd maintain I have no business making "moral judgements" about these as well.