2006-07-31 15:09:43 · 31 answers · asked by Emily B 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The children...they are innocent and not capable of defending themselves!
2006-07-31 15:13:27 · answer #1 · answered by Helzabet 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This may sound heartless but, objectively, if one had to choose it is worse if an adult is murdered.
More time, energy and resources have been put into an adult than a child. The loss is that much greater. A child has a speculative interest that can be replaced within a few years.
However, a grown adult takes a substantial part of several people's lifetimes to develop, train, and mold into a member of society. An adult can also reproduce while a child cannot.
2006-07-31 15:16:58 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Both are bad. I guess you can say it's worse to murder a child because children are young, innocent, and naive. A murdered child didn't have much of an opportunity to see the world and become what something great. It's hard for parents to bury their own child. Then again....it's bad to murder an adult. The adult is someone's mother, father, sister, brother....etc. A murdered adult was denied opportunities as well. So I don't know.....
2006-07-31 15:16:06 · answer #3 · answered by Michelle 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not that it is wise to compare wrongs, but, I feel it is worse when a child is killed because they have been robbed of more life than an adult would have. An adult may have had marriage, kids, travel, career, etc. A child has yet to come into these things.
However in essence, wrong is wrong. Both are gross evils so why prioritize?
2006-07-31 15:17:13 · answer #4 · answered by Love of Truth 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Child. It is presumed that an adult is better capable of reading people, defending themselves, knowing a bad situation and when to get out,when to trust and not trust.
A child is more likely to trust, more likely to go to a stranger, and perhaps has not yet developed the senses needed for protection of ones self.
Thhis being said, the child being killed is more traumatic
2006-07-31 15:15:53 · answer #5 · answered by Fitchurg Girl 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think both are bad but at least the adult had a chance to see things a child may not get to.
2006-07-31 15:13:22 · answer #6 · answered by rachee_gal 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
technically its the same because both are humans just in different stages of life...but it would seems a lot more cruel and cold hearted to kill a child because a child is more innocence and incapable of defending himself its almost the same as killing woman and old people instead of a middle age man.
That's why the media always like to report about kids, women, and old people being killed in war or accidents. They never say "and the people that died were middle age men."
2006-07-31 15:19:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Murder is murder. People will take it harder if a child is murdered.
In the end the punishment is the same. Plain and simple, You go to Hell.
2006-07-31 15:16:06 · answer #8 · answered by Fotios 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A child who is more defenseless than an adult
2006-07-31 15:22:19 · answer #9 · answered by Knowledge Seeker 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A child because children have more years to live.
2006-07-31 15:14:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's wrong either way. A child has a lot more living to do. I would give my life(not take) for my children!
2006-07-31 15:35:49 · answer #11 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋