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<blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 7973171" data-attributes="member: 6788736"><p>Of course we do.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>All are cases of legitimate self defence or the defence of others. The only time it is morally OK to take a life.</p><p></p><p>If you walked up to Dahmer while he was sitting at a table having a coffee and minding his own business, you would go to jail for murder. What you did was wrong. Society would condemn your actions as evil and morally reprehensible. You go to prison.</p><p></p><p>If you heard screams next door, and looked through a window and saw him about to stab a child (or anyone else), <u>shoot him in the face with extreme prejudice</u>. What you did was not wrong. Society would not condemn your actions as evil or morally reprehensible. You have committed no crime that society deems as sanction-able. You walk free.</p><p></p><p>Do you see the difference? Society considers killing a person in circumstances <em>other than reasonable self defence (or the defence of others)</em> to be morally reprehensible and sanction-able as a crime.</p><p></p><p>You might think its not an evil thing to do, but good luck arguing that to a judge.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So what? That's on the monsters head, not on yours. You dont know what the monster is going to do, and the monster can answer to its own Gods when it dies. If the monster isnt threatening you, hasnt threatened you, has take no agressive action towards you, then killing it out of convenience simply because you stumbled upon it in its home, or because of what you think it might do in the future, is evil.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Flamestrike, post: 7973171, member: 6788736"] Of course we do. All are cases of legitimate self defence or the defence of others. The only time it is morally OK to take a life. If you walked up to Dahmer while he was sitting at a table having a coffee and minding his own business, you would go to jail for murder. What you did was wrong. Society would condemn your actions as evil and morally reprehensible. You go to prison. If you heard screams next door, and looked through a window and saw him about to stab a child (or anyone else), [U]shoot him in the face with extreme prejudice[/U]. What you did was not wrong. Society would not condemn your actions as evil or morally reprehensible. You have committed no crime that society deems as sanction-able. You walk free. Do you see the difference? Society considers killing a person in circumstances [I]other than reasonable self defence (or the defence of others)[/I] to be morally reprehensible and sanction-able as a crime. You might think its not an evil thing to do, but good luck arguing that to a judge. So what? That's on the monsters head, not on yours. You dont know what the monster is going to do, and the monster can answer to its own Gods when it dies. If the monster isnt threatening you, hasnt threatened you, has take no agressive action towards you, then killing it out of convenience simply because you stumbled upon it in its home, or because of what you think it might do in the future, is evil. [/QUOTE]
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