Thursday, August 2, 2007

Question #95 Killing

Under what circumstances is it morally acceptable to kill someone?

11 comments:

Unknown said...

If someone is trying to kill you and the only way to stop them is to kill them first then it's ok. But you should still try to maybe just maim them or something instead. It would probably be best to take out their eyes, because if they can't see you, it would be hard for them to find you to try to kill you again.
Also, anyone who hurts animals for fun should be killed on the spot.

Jake said...

I agree with Natalie; if the only way to prevent someone from killing someone else is to kill the assailant, then it's excusable.

This might extend to animals. But it's hard for me to distinguish between "killing animals for fun" and "killing animals for the fun of eating them instead of eating something else."

Anonymous said...

what natalie and jake said-- only if yourself or someone else's life were in imminent danger. i wouldn't have it in me otherwise.

Anonymous said...

Only in defense, you should at least try to just incapacitate them first.
My preference is pulling off an ear.

Phoebe said...

After watching Goodfellas about three times a year for the past fourteen years or so, I believe the following scenarios are perfectly acceptable for murder:

1. If you shoot them in the foot and they tell you to go fuck yourself.

2. If they keep asking you where your shinebox is, after you've told them it's been a long time and you don't shine shoes no more.

3. If we had a problem and there ain't nothing we can do about it.

4. If they buy a Cadillac and a fur coat the day after the Lufthansa heist after you explicitly told them: Don't. Buy. Anything.

5. If they were supposed to take the truck to be destroyed the next morning but they fall asleep instead. Especially when the cops find it covered in prints.

6. If they won't shut up about their fucking money.

ariel said...

Natalie probably said it best; though La Vitellona made some interesting points. I would also like to include dueling. I'm not condoning it; its just that if you are dumb enough to enter a duel, understanding the principle that one person will inevitably get shot, and you understand that you could be that person, then its difficult to consider your death a moral outrage (assuming both parties dueled fairly, according to agreed upon dueling rules).


Again, I would suggest to agree to disagree, or flip a coin.

Nate Geniella said...

I agree with the idea that it is proper to kill someone in defense of yourself...

But i believe its even more....applicaple to do defending loved ones or others....

Like if someone pointed a gun at me or put me in some kind of mortal danger....i could see myself hesistating...but if someone say, pointed a gun at my mom...i would probably not hesistate to do whatever it takes to stop them...

Anonymous said...

If they're gay.

Anonymous said...

Definitely if they are Gay. A shotgun up the ass, or maybe ass electrocution by dildo..... As long as it hurts and they suffer and take a long time to die...

Anonymous said...

It is always morally acceptable... if i wouldn't go to jail for it, and would not have to fear any repurcussions (e.g., by stopping time for so noone can ever find out), i would have killed tons of people... God doesn't give a shit if i kill you or a truck runs you over... (s)he has other things to do, like making sure the planets circle around each other in the proper distance, hating gays and jews, etc...

Anonymous said...

I just thought about it, and being able to stop time alone may not be enough for people to not find out and/or trace it back to me... God would need to let me know that noone will find out and/or that their will be no repurcussions for me (Im not talking about permission to kill! I already know it is ok... God just needs to promise me noone will ever know) then I'd kill like it's 1941 again!