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Good to know you believe in eye for eye. What happens when you go blind?
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Good to know you believe in eye for eye. What happens when you go blind?
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LMAO! That is just messed up!
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if someone killed someone's son, imo he should kill the person who killed his son. no random reasons. forget about the law. law is a worldly issue.
Law may be a worldly issue, but Allah's *ad'l *isn't.
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I would think most people who callously talk about taking someone's life on here would most likely be defacating in their pants given such a situation.
there are people who would pee in their pants if a beautiful girl says hi to them, but you see Life1 full with everyone opinions on every topic. A discussion is always - just a discussion.
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exactly my point
eye for an eye is not forbidden - even though not preferred
Law may be a worldly issue, but Allah's *ad'l *isn't.
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For those of us who were making fun of some that in real rife situation, instead of killing someone, we might shat in our pants - please read this
this is what i was talking about
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this is what i am talking about
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And here is the other perspective - someone who kills because his job demands it and yet seems to feel very little guilt about taking a human life. He rationalizes his actions as a job requirement, a public service and one that his faith (Christianity) condones.
Some days, Chris Kyle writes, the U.S. military credits him with killing 160 people in Iraq. Other days, it credits him with killing a bunch more people. Not that the tally matters.
“The number is not important to me. I only wish I had killed more,” Kyle, a former Navy SEAL, writes in his new memoir, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History.](American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S ... - Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Jim DeFelice - Google Books) “***Not for bragging rights, but because I believe the world is a better place without savages out there taking American lives.”
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“One of the things people are saying is, ‘Why are you glorifying yourself for killing so many people?’ My thing is, I didn’t even want the number put in there. That’s not even on me. You can blame the publisher for wanting to sell books,” Kyle, 37, said over the phone from New York.
He says he killed 40 people in the Second Battle of Fallujah alone, about seven of them through the window of an apartment building while lying on top of a baby crib he turned upside-down. (“No babies were harmed,” he said with a chuckle.) Near Sadr City, he says, he killed an insurgent, who had been aiming a rocket launcher at an approaching American convoy, from a distance of 1.2 miles.
Kyle said Wednesday that he never mistakenly killed an innocent person. In fact, he said, he probably should have killed more people than he did.
“That was one thing that was heavy on my mind: when I come home, I definitely do not want to be tried for murder for accidentally shootin’ the wrong person,” he said.
When people ask him whether it bothers him that he killed so many people, he writes, he answers with a simple “no.” On Wednesday, he said it does bother him, “a little bit,” that some people now think he is a “sadistic murderer.”
“I’ve seen the blogs,” he said. “People who have never been out there, never experienced it — and they think that, because I consider myself a Christian, I’m a horrible Christian, because Christians aren’t supposed to be killin’ people. But you know what? In the Bible, God sent people to kill people. I feel extremely justified in what I did. I’m not out there murdering people; the people I killed were actively trying to murder my people, and I was out there trying to protect ’em.”
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And here is the other perspective - someone who kills because his job demands it and yet seems to feel very little guilt about taking a human life.
Most of this fella's kills are from a distance too though. He didn't walk up and slit a throat for example.
There's always another perspective. The world is full of people that will take a life without a second thought.
There's always guns for hire, mercenaries, thugs or the odd psycho that isn't hesitant. Still a minority.
I suppose our point was that for the most part, people just don't have it in them to make a kill (Let alone up close).
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Killing someone in self defense is one thing, killing out of revenge or anger is totally diff. Most people can do first, as when fear takes over, you you can do any and everything.
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If I get request from Gupshup crazy lady to kill said lady to avoid taking exame the next day.
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And here is the other perspective - someone who kills because his job demands it and yet seems to feel very little guilt about taking a human life. He rationalizes his actions as a job requirement, a public service and one that his faith (Christianity) condones.
As you are aware, unfortunately, war is dirty business. The guys in the frontline have a job to do. They have to rationalize it however they can, as a job requirement, as part of faith or whatever else. at the risk of stating the obvious, war should be avoided at all costs. This way, soldiers will not de-humanize their targets, and we, in turn, will not de-humanize soldiers.
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Some days I could stab the kids in Café.
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I'm going to disagree a little. I think given the right circumstances, we're all capable of bloodshed. All of us. We dehumanize as effortlessly as we love. It's what allows us to sit and watch with apathy when someone else is doing it.
"We are all capable of carrying out acts of evil. That’s the great lesson you learn as a war correspondent, and probably the most disturbing. That the line between the victim and the victimizer is razor thin. That in moments of fear and instability and social disintegration we all have the capacity to carry out acts of atrocity, or at best stand by as silent accomplices. And almost no one is immune. The contagion of the crowds sees to that. When you externalize evil, you turn human beings into extractions. That no longer grieve, or love, or suffer like we do. But embody a virus that must be eradicated."
- Chris Hedges
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So we’re all in agreement then.
There is always a line. I don’t think anyone debated its existence; merely the fact that for the most part its drawn way further than what would call a psychopathic tendency. I’m sure we’re all capable of complete disregard when it comes to another human being’s life. Just need the right catalyst. And perhaps we are moving towards that what with the collective desensitization all around us. Or maybe we’re just being ourselves.
/rantthatwasgoingsomewhereinmyhead
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I don't remember who/what I was disagreeing a little with. Premature dementia. Basically I wanted to drive home the point that we are an evil species destined to kill each other off. Sometimes I wish I was a gnat. I bet gnats have better ethics.
/thatwashardlyarantandyouwereprobablygoingtoconcludethatogresarelikeonions
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I was miles away officer, i had the force. :D
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Mosquitoes are nasty! 
BUT THEY ARE LIKE ONIONS!