(April 18, 2020 at 10:25 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It's not really for god. It's for the person that they intend to kill.Actually - unless you are someone with experience in killing people - you cannot understand the justifications such people use to make themselves feel they are just in their actions.
If a person believes that living in the wrong religion is harmful - when they kill that person, they can absolutely believe that they are doing it to help them. To save them from further harm. It's a mercy. The same reason we'll shoot a dog that gets hit by a truck.
Believing in, or accepting, or even practicing mercy isn't a problem, or at least not this problem. It's only when mercy and harm are defined by a god with a shitlist that this becomes an issue (or, again, the issue). Perceptually and experientially, they are engaging in an act of kindness - it's not their fault that the author of the cosmos is filth.
They aren't of course. But the belief that they are is how they continue to suck air - when in truth they would do us all a favor by not.....
