The WOL and Mass Murder

[JunseiKei]

IJS, that's why many soldiers are given drugs to help deal with the acts they have done. Suffer from PTSD. I've had a good chunk of my family serve, both willing and not (and we're Americans, a draft did occur, least you forget and not everyone has passed away that personally remember it). Taking life is murder, regardless of how others may justify it. They still commit murder, though it has been bestowed upon them by the government to be pardoned for their acts (justifiable homicide).

If you throw a rock in the air in an empty field and it happens to fall and hit someone on the head you didnt even know was there and killed them. Does that really make you a murderer?

That is called manslaughter. Murder is done with intent, so no.

Either or, what I'm getting at is the WoL does commit murder, but does it for "the greater good," giving them a pardon from those around them.
Flip the reasoning over: if you've read the lore book, you understand what the Garleans have suffered through (centuries of raiding from the "lesser" races). We call them murderers, but they are just as justified. Why are we pardoned and not they? Mainly because we fight on the [ultimately] victor's side and that is how the story is written. I'd like to think they'll eventually be redeemed because of those circumstances. We've given the beastmen redemption; I'd love to see the same extended to the Garleans. The Ascians are still the overarching nemesis.