Unless you are stoping someone from killing a bunch of people by killing that one or few persons. That is the only reason i could ever see myself justifying murder.
2007-03-05 05:31:23 · 8 answers · asked by aphotic nostrum 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
No doctor y, that makes you a hero. Such insight! Maybe there are more reasons to end someone elses life. One i hold high is to save the life/lives of yes, innocent people. Since you are wondering, No i could not sit idley by, could you? All i want to do is help people. Try as much as i can to make the world a better place.
2007-03-05 06:49:30 · update #1
Look... you've already admitted that there's at least one reason why killing people is not only justified, but probably a good idea. Having admitted one, does it seem that unlikely that there are others? Perhaps hundreds?
I'll agree with you - a life is valuable. But it is not an infinite value. And measured against even a high value, there are undoubtedly many things which are higher still.
You grant that it would be worth a life to save another life, particularly an innocent one, I presume. But what about quality of life? If killing one person could free thousands from slavery, provide food for starving nations, or end a major disease, wouldn't you do it? Many people sacrifice their own lives for such things... do you think it is because they value their lives as worth less than those of others?
Don't doubt, either, that some lives are worth more than others. There are many people who make their lives a burden to all around them. There are people who - by just about any system of justice one might choose - DESERVE no less than death. If the law is too corrupt to apprehend them, is it really wrong to remove them? Many people have been considered heroes for such deeds, rather than villains.
And don't say such situations never arise. They arise all the time. There are people who kidnap girls and get them addicted to drugs so they can be raped several times a night. There are people who hijack food shipments to starving villages so they can sell the food themselves. Can you honestly say that, if given the opportunity, you would stand idly by and do nothing rather than murder such human scum? Doesn't that make you complicit in such villainy yourself?
2007-03-05 06:15:34 · answer #1 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
inside evry man is a dark desire to be God. Most people don't actually try to be God, but occasionally we get some peole that do. That's why we get people trying to murder, trying to clone, trying to create life, trying to destroy it all. They just want to think of themselves as some kind of God that should be feared.
2007-03-05 06:15:05 · answer #2 · answered by Johnny Afman 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They do not value human life, because they don't value their own. Our common religions teach us to sacrifice the self, if you are successfully at that, you can murder for any cause. Their cause.
2007-03-05 06:50:16 · answer #3 · answered by Real Friend 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think the murderer has a super ego: he does not understand others people suffering and he does not care.
2007-03-05 05:36:28 · answer #4 · answered by remy 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
For I have sat in judgment and found them wanting. The world I desire does not include them or their ilk.
2007-03-05 07:53:28 · answer #5 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because they don't know what they do! If they 'really' could know, they couldn't do. It should be impossible!
2007-03-05 10:05:38 · answer #6 · answered by ombra mattutina 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
our government murders people with the death penalty so i guess people think if they can do it, so can we...
2007-03-05 05:35:00 · answer #7 · answered by Tacyella 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
people just think they can do what they please and I also do not agree with people that think they can take someone elses life
2007-03-05 05:35:32 · answer #8 · answered by Jacquie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋