Sunday, January 1, 2012

Justifying Murder - When is It Right?

!±8± Justifying Murder - When is It Right?

When is it necessary to kill something (for this article's purpose, something includes animal or human)? When is it justified? There are many times when it is necessary to kill something, but no matter what, it is usually hard to go through with the act. Obviously, it's harder to kill a human than an animal, morally and physically, but it can still be difficult with an animal.

There are three basic reasons to kill something: It threatens your life or health, or someone else's life or health; you want it to die (for a variety of reasons), or to put it out of its misery. That first reason covers a lot of scenarios. If something is going to kill you, and the only way out is to kill that thing (animals can kill too, remember?), it is as necessary and justified as necessary and justified can get. No matter what, if you need to kill someone to save yourself, it is always justifiable. Even if something is just going to seriously hurt you, it is okay to kill. Same goes for another person: If they are being attacked, you can treat the attacker as though they were attacking you. Of course, if the person you are defending is being attacked because they did something horribly wrong, it would not be justifiable to defend them.

The second reason, "You want it to die", will be left for the end. Put it out of its misery, that's a term that's thrown around loosely. When is killing something really putting it out of its misery? I (that's right) will be going into first person for a moment. I had an experience; I was walking through a field, next to a forest. I happened upon a bird, it had a broken wing. I followed it, and it kept trying to fly away from me, but it couldn't. I got to look at it up close, and I wanted to kill it, for the purpose of putting it out of its misery. I knew it would die anyway, probably more painfully than if I didn't kill it, but since there was that small, small chance it could survive (it really is small), I didn't kill it, and I just didn't want to. I came back the next day to the bush where I had last seen it, and it was there, except something had torn it's head off and must have scratched at it quite a lot because feathers were everywhere. I could have killed it faster, I know that it must have died painfully. This same principle goes for humans; if a human is in a very bad condition, and they will die more painfully than if they were killed immediately by you, it is okay to kill them, that is, if the period between painful death and fast death is short. If it's a month, even two weeks, the person shouldn't be killed, because they still have lots of time to enjoy life before they're painful death. Unless, they would be suffering up until the exact moment of their death, then it is okay to kill them.

The final reason, "You want it to die," is probably where justification is not to be found, except in rare cases. The justification can be found in revenge; somebody kills all your friends and family for no reason, killing for revenge would be alright. However, if your friends/family had done something wrong, then it is not okay. Basically, anything else is murder. You want someone to die because they cheated you, because you don't like them, etc. If somebody does something bad to you and you kill them, that is a form of revenge, but it is by no means justifiable revenge, as the caliber of their misdeed was not high enough to authorize death.


Justifying Murder - When is It Right?

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