why is it wrong...???

Question

I just want to give the question a try. An answer from a ethical point of view, from an ideological point of view, or from a biological point of view. There can be many answers. However ... none of them are perfect

Humans kill a lot of animals. And trees, and grasses, and flowers, too. Even if they didn't do it consciously, they still keep killing other living things. Why? Because the other living things can't communicate with humans? Because the other living things are not as clever as humans? Well then, is it justifiable to kill a living thing that cannot communicate with you and is less clever than you?

Can you say that you have never taken a life before? Have you never eaten meat before? Aren't vegetables living things too? When you walk on the streets, have you never stepped on an insect too small for your eyes to see?

Animals other than humans kill other animals for food and survival, but humans are different. If it doesn't suit his purpose, he kills, be it those of his own kind or other living things. But even those who don't act that way, have definitely killed something in order to survive. Then why are humans not counted as living things that can be "killed?" Is it because humans are stronger than other living things? Then, is it justifiable for stronger living things to kill human beings?" Let me ask you once more. Why is it "wrong to kill human beings?"

Answer 1

Thank you for that super question.
I agree with you in certain things...I am a believer in a creator and his word says, that is in the Bible, at Genesis chapter 1 verse 28-30 please if you have access of one.
but you made an interesting point about...going beyond what is normal.
Sad to say in war I have killed, but I payed the price for it, with memory I still have the pictures in my mind sometimes it's hard to go on...I went back to Korea and looked up some of the families and made amends. but it still haunts me.
I am a fish eater, don't like red meat.
Vegetables and fruits were given to us to eat, but I do not over do it. I have plants at home love them and I talk to them, for growth and they give me oxygen.
Trees I hug them when I go into the woods at fall.
My teachers Mr. Yamanoha and Hayashi taught that to me.They are alive and you can feel their energy...Ki
I teach my students that too in Aikido.
Please be patient and look for the good in all of us...'Aiki...
a path so difficult to comprehend, yet as simple as the natural flow of heaven."- Morihei Ueshiba

Answer 2

you have put it correctly. Ethically it is not wrong because we all kill some living thing or the other. How ever man has to live as a community and develop so he has made rules that men should not kill each other. If it is allowed there will be no society left. So for the protection and existence of society the man killing man is prohibited. How ever during wars these rules dont apply nor it is possible to apply it .

Answer 3

It is morally wrong to kill humans because that is the only way that we can get along. Morality, at it's most basic form, is a set of conventions that the overwhelming majority agree to, without which, civilization would be impossible. We have all agreed to not kill others, because that is the only way that we can be reasonably sure that we will not -be- killed.

As for killing other creatures, it is the very nature of life to be competitive, and mother nature does not recognize second place. You say that man kills at a whim, while other species kill only for neccesity. I think that your information is incorrect. Ants wage genocidal wars, and then don't even gather the food from the defeated anthill. Dolphins will randomly bash a puffer-fish back and forth until it dies, and then just swim away. I could go on ad nauseum. The point is, the very nature of nature is violence, murder, and death, "Nature, red in tooth and claw" as a better writer than me once said.

Answer 4

Life is all about killing, there is no other way for life to perpetuate. Every living animal (and some plants!) has to eat some living thing whether that be a cell (plant or animal) or another complex animal. So if all life tried to be "moral" it would just cease to exist. On the grand scale fo things, each life is unimportant.

As for humans, we aren't different and we are. The actual value of any one human isn't really much different than one wildebeest. But since humans have this brain that allows them to make lifetime attachments and mourn the loss of a loved one for the rest of their lives, we have rules against killing each other. Actually most animals get a little skeeved when one of their group kills a fellow packmate. Some attack that "criminal", some get over it.

Someone that kills a fellow human is a danger to the rest of us, so we punish him/her. That's what life does here, we follow along.

Answer 5

First of all, I think plants should not have ever been considered living things. Just because they grow does not mean they are living in the same sense as we are. Secondly, we are made in God's image, so we are more important than the animals. Granted, I don't think you should kill animals for no reason, but killing animals just isn't the same as killing plants. (Bugs and bacteria, etc. don't count just like plants don't. The Bible places them in a different category from other living things.) And if you think about it, most people don't feel as guilty about killing an ant as they would a person. God gave us consciences for a reason. He also says in His Word many times that human life (all of it, even unborn babies and the elderly) is sacred. So it is just not the same as killing a bunny rabbit, no matter how cute the bunny is.

Answer 6

why is it wrong to kill human beings?
I'll tell you my perspective:
those other creatures that we kill all around us were at the same intelligence level as human beings when we were monkeys. we were all evolving at different rates but there was no dominant species.
then we humans learned something new. we learned how to use tools with our hands. we were suddenly the only creature with the knowledge of tools and we became dominant. long story short we stopped evolving.
we no longer needed to grow longer legs to out run a cheetah because we could spear it with a stick instead.

we no longer needed to live next to rivers and streams because we could dig wells, and carry water in baskets and skins.

but with our new found knowledge of tools came other things. We began to feel Jealousy, hatred and compassion.
it is compassion that keeps us from killing each other with our bare hands.
a mother lion has no compassion so eating the weakest of her cubs is no big deal.
so my answer is compassion. that is the only thing keeping us from tearing each other apart.
compassion

Answer 7

Who said it was wrong to kill human beings? It is wrong to murder human beings. As far as killing plants and animals, My God-the Creator, gave man dominion over them. We are justified in killing them for use as food, clothing, whatever. We are to kill with just cause and not for any other reason.

Answer 8

We do have a relationship and a responsibility to the earth and the rest of creation, but that is less important than our fellow man. Jesus said the 2 greatest commandments were to love God and love your fellow man, not worry about trees and flowers.

Put God and your fellow man first in your life and you will find yourself having an automatic respect for Gods creation!

Answer 9

There is a big difference between human life and animal/plant/insect and other lifving things. You see, in man, God breathed the breath of life... and He placed within man a spirit and soul.... all the rest of creation does not have both of those. Animals have life...but not the breath of God. They do not struggle with sin or a conscience. Only man has that problem and then is why as he matures he learns the difference beetween right and wrong.
When man dies... as a sinner... the soul dies too. But the spirit of a man lives on eternally.... either in heaven with God or in torment for eternity... based on our choice to accept or reject God and Jesus.

Answer 10

most animals will not eat their own kind. they will kill to protect terratory or other such reasons.

even early humans would kill to protect and not consume the flesh.

so in some cases it is not wrong to kill another human. if that human is trying to kill you then you are at liberty to try to kill him.

but in most cases animals do not kill just to kill.
so humans hsould not just kill for the enjoyment of killing.

even ancient pagan religions held human life in high regard.

we do not kill each other because we are capable of guilt and remorse.