(August 19, 2010 at 3:09 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(August 15, 2010 at 8:49 am)solja247 Wrote: You have still killed a baby. Kill Hitler when he was a baby would of been good BUT it is still evil. A baby is a baby, whether it grows to be Hitler or Gandhi killing a baby is evil, you are still choosing the lesser of two evils.Why does killing = evil?
Surely it can be either just OR evil?
As in Adrian's example above, killing baby Hitler could be morally defensible. The only problem is our knowledge of all of the effects of our action. That is, if we're denying some good that may come about from the holocaust (washes mouth out) then our action wouldn't be morally 'pure' and in part evil.
Of course God doesn't have this issue because he knows everything, and therefore can judge.
Therefore: God killing = just
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It's hard to see how killing the Midionites was ultimately okay, but if that's what you want to believe...
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln