Well naturally I don't agree with everything that he said as that would be ignorant and smacks of sycophant, however, It seems only logical to me that we do not take life from others, for two primary reasons:
The first of these reasons is simply that life is life and because of the vast complexity of it and the great process undertaken to create and develop it, it seems to me to be a shame to remove that at all, on this grounds I would distinguish humanity from single-cellular organisms, amoeba and other miniature beings in terms of morality (thus it is wrong to kill a person or animal yet not kill bacteria). It would seem to me to be inherently bad to be destroying a precious existence and, to our knowledge, the rarest thing in the universe.
Secondly, I would assume that murder is intrinsicly bad because it violates the person's right to act autonomously, thus we would be removing that entirely if we were to kill them. However, were they to commit suicide this would not neccessarily be an immoral act as this affords autonomy even if it is to kill oneself. Therefore the act of murder would be intrinsicly bad because we do not afford to the individual a great enough level of control over their own actions, we must ask ourselves whether or not they want to die.
There are other reasons but these are my two primary argument and if anyone has some fors/againsts I'm more than happy to entertain them and utilise them in the future
The first of these reasons is simply that life is life and because of the vast complexity of it and the great process undertaken to create and develop it, it seems to me to be a shame to remove that at all, on this grounds I would distinguish humanity from single-cellular organisms, amoeba and other miniature beings in terms of morality (thus it is wrong to kill a person or animal yet not kill bacteria). It would seem to me to be inherently bad to be destroying a precious existence and, to our knowledge, the rarest thing in the universe.
Secondly, I would assume that murder is intrinsicly bad because it violates the person's right to act autonomously, thus we would be removing that entirely if we were to kill them. However, were they to commit suicide this would not neccessarily be an immoral act as this affords autonomy even if it is to kill oneself. Therefore the act of murder would be intrinsicly bad because we do not afford to the individual a great enough level of control over their own actions, we must ask ourselves whether or not they want to die.
There are other reasons but these are my two primary argument and if anyone has some fors/againsts I'm more than happy to entertain them and utilise them in the future
