Nihilistic Murderer

[JuliaL]

Herzog made a great film about Tim Treadwell who thought he was an 'expert' on Bears until he got eaten by one.

Hope the bear didn't suffer any long term damage.

LOL
And very apropros.
I try to put myself in the place of others, human and non. I never succeed fully because (no surprise) I am not them. I think the bar to killing is one that varies depending on circumstance and perspective.
Losty might react strongly in defense of her children, robvalue suggests he would not kill in near any situation.
I find these expressed attitudes very understandable and consistent with my view of the underpinnings of morality. We are the product of eons of natural selection among self aware individuals (most recently humans) in which the populations that protected themselves (particularly those of close shared kinship) thrived better than those who did not. The subjective experience of this heredity is that of empathy for other people and strong motivation to protect those in danger. The degree to which we protect is directly proportional to our relatedness. Our own kids first, then other peoples, adults of the tribe less so, then members of other tribes, farther down, non-humans credited with awareness and finally non self-aware automatons (bugs), plants and rocks.
We don't, and probably cannot, intimately understand the perspective of a tiger (or bear) who might kill a child to provide food for its own cubs. The best I can extrapolate is that it just doesn't care. I cannot put myself in a place where a human sociopath (or Serbian war criminal) might think that course of action 'good.' So it goes.