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Originally Posted by Bill Gold
... Killing people should only be done as a last resort when your own life is at risk, not as a whim, not as a punishment, not as a deterrent, not as a means to get something you want, and most certainly not out of blind vengeance.
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Does this logic seem strange to anyone else or is it only me?
If its wrong to kill humans, then its always wrong to kill humans. Killing someone else to save your own life should not be the only exception to this rule. If you really feel its wrong to take someone elses life then the opposite should apply: you should sacrifice your own life to save the life of the other person. Even if the other person is the one who kills you.
Would that not be the highest standard to live up to (if you really feel that life is sacred?) Killing someone else to save your own life, isnt that nothing more than self-preservation? Where is the morality in self preservation at all costs?
Some day we may all have phasers set to stun, and when someone is out of control we can subdue them without harming them, and without risking our own lives, and then restrain or confine that person until they are reprogrammed/ rehabilitated / reformed / renewed / reborn... whatever it takes to make them safe to release into society again.
But until that day, anyone with $129 can walk into Walmart and buy a lethal weapon, sit on an overpass or hill, and take many human lives.
People have been killing each other for all of recorded history. Nobody likes this fact, but it is a part of human nature. Fear of punishment is one of the few tools we have to keep civilization intact. Justice.