Is killing a witch always a bad thing?

[Drich]

Google it, Witchcraft is a real religion, albeit very benign today. A few hundred years ago it was the only real option to Christianity in the west. It's practitioners did all sorts of terrible things in the name of satan. Whether satan endowed those people with powers or not the underlying fact is that much torment and destruction was doled out in his name. Much like the crusades or inquisitions.

That in mind the question stands how much would it take to kill someone else who was trying to worship their deity by tormenting you/your family?

I get that witchcraft is a real religion, in the same sense that christianity is; they both have untenable beliefs that don't match with reality. I was asking whether you were posing your hypothetical as a literal magical assault, or a physical one done under the auspices of a religious witchcraft ritual.

The former obviously isn't going to happen, and as for the latter, that's what laws are for. We've had self defense clauses in our laws for ages; why would a witchcraft based assault be any different from a regular one?

Pointy hat aside, that is.

Magical assaults? Where did you get that? I said that people in the efforts of worshiping satan do all sorts of horrible things. Now my question was based on the idea that you were the focus of such a worship ceremony. Again whether the devil endowed these people with powers or not is not the issue. Let's say he doesn't, yet they are still killing your pets, breaking into your home performing various religious rights and ceremonies in your house while your away, and have expressed an interest in offering you to their deity.

Now you've turned this over to the police, they come back not enough evidence to arrest, what do you do? How long do you live in terror/under threat?

Now and again 300 years ago? Remember 300 years ago (in the west) atheism was not a viable option, so 'good people' like yourselves have limited options when wanting to express a hatred towards God. This was how it was done and tormenting the faithful was par for the course.

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Wait wait wait....Drich, do you believe in real witches? Like that girl in bewitched? Or maybe Sabrina? Do they have familiars too? Talking black cats maybe?

Did you read anything past the thread title?