Is a criminal less of a human being than a law abiding person?

Question

Is a criminal killing another criminal doing us a favor or is she/he committing another crime?

Answer 1

To your first question, I don't believe that someone who has committed a crime is any less of a human being. They may be, in some sense, less of a citizen in that they forfeight certain rights by having committed these crimes (i.e. they cannot vote).

The second one is a grey area. Personally, I would like to give a big thank you to the people who took care of Dahmer.

Answer 2

All human beings have the same value. What is different is the regulatory interaction we all allow to all beings.All are given the same rule to live by. Each being has a set of indevidual values that they use to interact with other being. This is demonstrated in the level of crimminality that the community allows. #1 would never consider taking a pencil from work. #2 would take a pencil but not a monagramed pen. $3 would consider taking the cash box and replacing it and the money at the end of the week. Punishment would be considered for #3 if caught. #2 would be overlooked because it's in the minor level or range of crimminal behavior. All Laws came into useage only because some form of control has to exist between, at least, .two people.
One criminal killing another isn't doing anyone but himself a 'favor', removing an obstacle from his path. There is no justification for the rest of us as the masses did not pronounce that sentence, It was not done in the interest of the masses. to feel that way would be to institute classses of beings. we have already established that a being is a being and physically we are all the same.

Answer 3

I don't think they are less human beings than law abiding citizens, but I do think they are people who have made bad choices in their lives and many have psychological problems. Killing is a crime whether a good person or a bad person. I guess if the criminals want to kill each other, I wouldn't be too upset over that......although I know it is wrong. Better to hurt each other than more innocent people being involved.

Answer 4

To answer the first part of your question, I would answer that transgression of the common law makes them of less value to society. If it is related to statute law, then maybe not, as anything can be made a criminal act by statute.

If a criminal in my first sense does mischief to another criminal in my first sense, well it has to be seen as a favour to society. If nothing else, it will save court/prison time and costs.

Answer 5

It would have to depend on the criminal being killed. I think if you are talking about another killer or a sex offender of any kind, then the criminal is doing us a favor. If they are killing little Suzie who just stole a candybar from the store then no.

Answer 6

Less spent tax dollars on the scum. When jeffery dalmer was killed by another inmate, justice was served.

Answer 7

That depends on your definition of a human being.

Answer 8

That depends,if you are referring to pedophiles,rapists,sadists,and others who take pleasure in the torture and abuse of humans or animals,then yes,they are sub-human scum who do not deserve to walk the earth.

Answer 9

Not at all. He is as much as any human. What he is would be unsociable or anti-social.

Answer 10

both