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Would you kill the person who is about to kill?
#31
RE: Would you kill the person who is about to kill?
(November 26, 2015 at 12:46 am)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: If I kill the killer, then I find out the killer had motivations that were understandable, even sympathetic, should I kill the other guy to make up for it? And then myself for killing the first guy?
Damn, you're making a real mess.
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#32
RE: Would you kill the person who is about to kill?
(November 26, 2015 at 12:58 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Isn't killing someone a lot worse than torturing him?

Not according to logic. The quicker the life ends, the less pain the individual endures. Only psychos of a certain caliber resort to torture.
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#33
RE: Would you kill the person who is about to kill?
(November 26, 2015 at 1:00 am)Kitan Wrote:
(November 26, 2015 at 12:58 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Isn't killing someone a lot worse than torturing him?

Not according to logic.  The quicker the life ends, the less pain the individual endures.  Only psychos of a certain caliber resort to torture.
When Jesus returns he's going to torture everyone and then kill them.  People love Jesus.
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#34
RE: Would you kill the person who is about to kill?
(November 26, 2015 at 1:05 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: When Jesus returns he's going to torture everyone and then kill them.  

According to what scripture?
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#35
RE: Would you kill the person who is about to kill?
(November 26, 2015 at 1:06 am)Kitan Wrote:
(November 26, 2015 at 1:05 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: When Jesus returns he's going to torture everyone and then kill them.  

According to what scripture?
According to the fairy tale in the book of Revelation = 

Revelation 9:3-10 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...ersion=CEB

Revelation 19:15 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...ersion=CEB
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#36
RE: Would you kill the person who is about to kill?
(November 26, 2015 at 12:59 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:
(November 26, 2015 at 12:46 am)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: If I kill the killer, then I find out the killer had motivations that were understandable, even sympathetic, should I kill the other guy to make up for it? And then myself for killing the first guy?
Damn, you're making a real mess.

I've have a talent for it.
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#37
RE: Would you kill the person who is about to kill?
Can you not provide me with a synopsis rather than links?
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#38
RE: Would you kill the person who is about to kill?
(November 24, 2015 at 7:16 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: So, you see an individual that is about to kill another person. You don't know the killer or the other person (both adults, let's leave kids out of this, both same race and sex). There are only moments to stop the killer and your only option is to kill. Not wound, not talk, not call police.

Would you kill?

How is my only option to kill?  It is easy enough to put someone down, now if they refuse to stay down, that is a different story and could lead to killing.
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#39
RE: Would you kill the person who is about to kill?
Regardless of my assessment of the situation, I highly doubt I could physically make myself kill.
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#40
RE: Would you kill the person who is about to kill?
(November 24, 2015 at 7:16 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: So, you see an individual that is about to kill another person. You don't know the killer or the other person (both adults, let's leave kids out of this, both same race and sex). There are only moments to stop the killer and your only option is to kill. Not wound, not talk, not call police.

Would you kill?

And there is the issue of which one needs killing, as you stated that we do not know either one, which means that we do not know the situation.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson

God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers

Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders

Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
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