Not "you" personally... but any arbitrarily selected representative of the sapient populace.
Can a person kill someone as an act of love toward that person?
2007-11-13 23:54:47 · 24 answers · asked by Lucid Interrogator 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-11-14 00:23:48 · update #1
Given how silly an emotion love actually is, I wouldn't dare underestimate its ability to make people do really strange and irrational things..... like terminate someone they're duty-bound to protect in order to prevent something else.... like the milk going sour.
So a unanimous yes there.
2007-11-15 20:09:50 · answer #1 · answered by Dire Badger 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Other than the assisted suicide thing, I'd say perhaps, but it would have to be an extreme situation.
If I knew without doubt that my child was to be tortured and would have to suffer great physical and emotional pain, then I would definately kill them first. Better to die at my hands, my way, than to be tortured by some sick individual.
But see, then it all comes back to, is that killing? Kill, as in murder. Is providing an easier death considered killing?
2007-11-14 08:05:13 · answer #2 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not - people justify killing for every concievable reason... the most humane example I can think of would be in a case of someone terminally ill, suffering, etc... it could be perceived as an act of love to terminate their life and thus their suffering while keeping them alive - on life support for example - could be an example of selfishness... Keeping them in their suffering because you aren't ready to let go...
2007-11-14 11:37:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't kill the person I LOVE out of love, but would with another person.
Eh, maybe not. Only if said person was attacking me or him. Otherwise I think I couldn't even hurt a fly.
2007-11-14 07:58:55 · answer #4 · answered by leeloo ♥ 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it has been done. Someone in great pain and who is terminally ill, may want assisted suicide. Sometimes, this can cross the line, and be considered killing the person.
2007-11-14 07:59:41 · answer #5 · answered by astrogoodwin 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's concievable, in hypothetical "tortured to death or death" situations, or in "He's gone irreperably insane, and is harming himself and others" situations. Neither is anything anyone of us is going to face, but it's theoretically possible that the best thing you could do for someone is end their life, it would just have to be so extreme as to be nearly impossible.
2007-11-14 07:59:21 · answer #6 · answered by Skalite 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Literature is rife with the premise of killing one's loved ones for all manner of reasons. So is history.
2007-11-15 05:14:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course. Ever heard of assisted suicide? That is almost always done out of love. There are many more cases of it than get identified by police too.
2007-11-14 07:59:01 · answer #8 · answered by Brett2010 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Are you talking about killing the object of your love? Ummm.... I can't imagine what a sick perverted person would think this way, killing his loved one in order to make him happy
Second thought: if that loved one is in very big pain and wishes to die, then I take my words back...
2007-11-14 07:58:14 · answer #9 · answered by larissa 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it is the easiest way a person could do to kill the pain.
Thanks for asking. Have a great day!
2007-11-14 08:11:25 · answer #10 · answered by Third P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋