RE: Atheists only vote please: Do absolute MORAL truths exist? Is Rape ALWAYS "wr...
February 19, 2015 at 9:14 pm
(This post was last modified: February 19, 2015 at 9:16 pm by Pyrrho.)
(February 19, 2015 at 8:57 pm)Dystopia Wrote: Murder can be morally acceptable if it constitutes self-defense - Either I kill the guy or he kills me, I don't have a choice.
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No. You should look up the word "murder" in an ordinary dictionary (though I recommend looking for the Oxford dictionary online). It is not at all the same as just killing. Killing someone in self-defense is not murder.
Edited to add:
I see The Reality Salesman beat me to this idea. But he did not advise you to look it up, which I still think you should do, so that you will see exactly how it differs in meaning from the word "killing."
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
