On Jan 18, 4:26 pm, wizard_47_cpp <[email protected]> wrote: > Recently i was thinking about murder. I was wondering if this, > sometimes, could be the best solution to many important problems (i > obvious exclude personal and economical ones). There are some people > who we think should die, because they damage the society, the world > and other people. So, do we have the right to kill this individuals? > I'm some kind of atheist (exaclty i don't believe in an antropomorphic > god, endowed with an human-like will), so i don't think, like > somebody, only god has the right to kill humans. > My thought is we have this right, but it needs valid motivations. > But now the questions are: does valid motivations really exist? can > human understand wich are them? > The topic can become wider with the last one, it implicates the > understanding of an absolute truth. > > Sorry for my english
No worries about the English!! Obviously lions, for example, have the ability to kill humans, but, most would only do so for tfood or self- defence. Neither of those 'reasons' are murderous. Murder is the needless killing of an individual. Life sometimes presents us with situations where killing other humans is required. Self-defence is the obvious one. The death-penalty CAN be viewed as a societal self- defence and it can hardly be seen as anything other than self- protection, perhaps coupled with ultimate prevention of further crimes by the individual so-disposed. Killing is different from murder. There are even situations (plane crashes is mountainous areas) where an individual may decide to kill another for food so that they can live long enough to be saved and, thus, live long enough to never have to kill a human for food again. There are many 'reasons' for what some may call murder, but the true murder is a killing that is 'without requirement'.
