Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20130810030606/@comment-24994749-20140712213504

The closest thing we have seem, at least in the Kingdom of Vale, to a child soldier are the hunters in training, which are different to a child soldier, I quote myself from an earlier post in this same thread:

"I think the difference between the White Fang child soldiers and the hunters in training is that:

a) up until they arrive at Beacon (age 17) all they seem to do is spar with each other. You could say it's not so different from studying martial arts.

b) they are taught to kill monsters. And they ain't actually sent to fight them until they have acquired a certain combat level.

The child soldiers are just kids that are being sent to kill people regardless of their own combat level."

And, on top if that, we now know Ozpin and Mr. Whitey see the students of Beacon as still children.

I'm not discarding the idea of the human army having used child soldiers during the Faunus Rights Revolution.

I'm just saying, even if the morals of the society of Remnant are different, it doesn't mean we can't judge based on our own morals. Understanding the morals of the society a story in set in is important to be able to understand the character and not wrongly think "X event" was poorly staged because in our society such thing wouldn't be possible.