User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 505: Trump Card, Review/@comment-5268982-20161008152040/@comment-7418318-20161008154401

Even if the enemy soldiers are really dead instead of just knocked out (which I highly doubt) you can hardly call that murder. This is war and in war soldiers kill the enemy soldiers.

Otherwise there would have been a WHOLE LOT of people put up on charges after WWII, not least of all the pilots who dropped the nuklear bombs on Japan and everyone above them in the chain of command all the way up to the president.

On top of that Makarov was acting in defense of himself and his family. Even outside of war that's still not called murder.