To Kill or not to kill is the issue..

[The_Hunk]

Re: To Kill or not to kill is the issue..

@minah_pa

No, not a new custom and not a new belief, but definitely against what I believe.

Life is given by one Being, God, and should be taken away by that one Being. You take a life, especially in retribution, you condemn yourself. Self-defence is the only acceptable excuse. Not after the fact but while it is happening.

OK - that is a personal belief, not one I would push on anyone, everyone makes their own choices about this. But that is what I was taught and what I believe.

ok … you’ve got the basic belief right. But there’s another angle to look at it from.

You say that life is given by God and I agree. You say self-defence is acceptable, I agree with that too. But why is killing in self-defence acceptable? You kill the attacker don’t you? Shouldn’t that be wrong? It’s not, because you are taking the life of an aggressor to prevent that of an innocent person. Similarly, when you punish a murderer by killing him (excuse me for my sexist assumption that the murderer is a he ), it’s a deterrent in two dimensions. First, you make sure that that person who’s psychologically capable of killing someone, doesn’t kill again. Second, his death serves as an example to others. Looking at the bigger picture, that’s saving lives.

P.S: Please don’t say that life-imprisonment is better, because you know prisons only create criminals.