What it it were your kids or family that would be harmed.
2006-08-19 22:04:22 · 17 answers · asked by Hadley Hodgkin 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
(For the sake of the argument, I'm going to give you the point of omniscient knowledge of the person's evil--let's not second-guess it, just take it that they're 100% bad-a%$ and go from there.)
Are you asking "what practical, legal interventions should one take to stop a potential Hitler from action" (Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot, Stalin, insert name of dictator/lunatic of choice)? Or is the question "can you use evil ends and justify the means---can you commit murder and shoot Hitler to prevent mass murder?" and "does the choice of the innocent victim affect your action?"
I find it easier to become enraged about evil when the victim can be personalized and is more "like me". Atrocity or war victims on the other side of the planet, or distant in time, may draw my pity-- but they are less compelling than the single person profiled on the 10 o'clock local news. So if someone dear to me was threatened, yes, that'd be more likely to get me going.
A lesser evil to prevent a greater evil?---from the basis of the greatest good to the maximum number of people, yes, I'd shoot Hitler.
What's really dangerous, though, is the potential delusion that one can have that one "knows" the best and wisest course of action that will be beneficial to the most people! This is a very risky path to walk....
2006-08-20 02:58:31 · answer #1 · answered by samiracat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
basically.... Chrsitianity stands for specific ethical values that decision for a individual no longer do the flaws that Hitler did... Atheism stands for no actual ethics. So, amoral acts interior the call of Christianity is a lie as a results of fact it violates Christ's teachings, ideals, and character. yet, amoral acts interior the call of Atheism would not violate any theory of atheism. in fact it form of feels that Atheism could create a constructive international view to do atrocities and not experience they are "incorrect".
2016-12-17 13:57:36 · answer #2 · answered by ussery 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't really do anything because the Bible says only God is the judge. We're supposed to love our enemies not kill them. The only exception is the President of the United States. He can have people killed because Jesus talks to him and tells him what to do. So you'd have to go through Bush before doing anything.
2006-08-19 22:16:57 · answer #3 · answered by Hippie Bill Clinton 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately ,lots of Hitler followers is out there.Lets hope they will be stopped in time.Before a other Holocaust happen.
2006-08-19 22:19:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would make friends with him real fast. I would have answered 9 years ago but I am a very slow reader
2015-01-08 04:52:12 · answer #5 · answered by Placida 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plenty of Hitler's out there.
2006-08-19 22:10:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since this is impossible to know you would only be speculating. Good advice would be to be as far down range as possible from them.
2006-08-19 22:12:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your serious, Report Him! He must be doing some wird or sick stuff now to make you think that way. Id be giving his/her name to a government anti terrorist agency.
2006-08-19 22:12:30 · answer #8 · answered by sara 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing, you'll never know if one of the people he's going to kill will be worse than him or not.
2006-08-19 22:11:46 · answer #9 · answered by TheFatIdiot 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Teach them, and love them. By doing anything else you would only feed their rage.
2006-08-19 22:10:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋