(September 14, 2015 at 1:09 pm)Losty Wrote: @CL- You're not understanding what I am saying. In the incidence where someone you love is trying to kill a stranger. If you defend that stranger at the cost of your loved one's life, you have valued the life of the stranger over your loved one. You wouldn't be wrong to do that, it makes sense to value the lives of innocent people over the lives of murderers or attemptive murderers. But I think you once said that it's not okay to end one life to save another one and now you're saying it is.
I see it differently, Losty. I see self defense as justice, not as saying one life is more important than the other life.
As for your last part, I said "an innocent life." I don't think it's right to kill one innocent person to save another innocent person. Let's say you're in the military and a group of terrorists captured you and your fellow soldier. As a way to torture you, they hold a gun up to your head and say, "kill your partner, otherwise we kill you." This stuff actually happens. Objectively speaking, I still think it would be wrong to kill your partner. I wouldn't cast any judgement on you because of the extremely difficult/impossible position you were in, though.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
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