Four questions for Christians

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You might want to make your point clearer. You are presenting the human person as an asset that needs to be preserved for productivity and defense. And do we really respect life so other people don't get mad? Does that make killing senile homeless men OK?

I don't deny that i think killing innocent people is wrong, if not more than you do. You may want to read that last part and try to understand what i meant. I mean to say that nothing is intrinsically right or wrong, the idea of right and wrong is a human one. I, being human, subscribe to these values, but these values were established by human civilizations, because those who choose to have these values prospered over those who did not. But i'll try again.

I explained why humans who think that way would prosper in my previous post. Generations of humans who believed that killing innocent people is wrong gets to live longer and have children who share their belief. And those that thought it was ok and no big deal died off because their group is unproductive. So we are the descendent of the group that believes that killing innocent people is wrong. If you think all through human history we've always thought this way, you'd be incorrect because in china there used to be a capital punishment thing that kills all the relatives of the offender. Even children.

So i believe that killing innocent people is wrong. I've been thinking this since I was a child and before I could rationalize it, because this value is reinforced so strongly in our society. So most of us think killing innocent people is wrong.

I also think it's wrong because it's wrong to take away someone's life, but that's just our society's idea. This idea of human rights. We made it up to reinforce useful values, like not killing people.

Is this clearer?