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Nihilistic Murderer
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RE: Nihilistic Murderer
(March 6, 2015 at 2:57 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: But speaking of dodging a point you didn't address whether or not you would ever want to kill someone.

I could see wanting to kill someone. I've been in one fight for my life, where I'm certain that my opponent literally wanted to kill me, and though I didn't kill him -- the fight was broken up when the police arrived -- you better believe that had killing him been required of me to survive, I would want to have done it. I had already, in that fight, sensed the possibility, and accepted that as one possible outcome.

I hold that morals are both relative and subjective. As such, I don't believe that all killing is always wrong, forever.

As for demonstrating meaning in life, I do that every day I go to work: for I have set myself to the purpose of helping make the world a better place than I have found it, and I do that by helping to run a nature preserve.

Raising my son has been my purpose for a long time, but he's grown into a fine young man and most of the heavy lifting is done. But he, too, allows me to define the meaning of my own life, insofar as I live in order to help him be a better man.

My morality obviously comes from my own peculiar combination of nature and nurture.

As for Bundy, I don't think being amoral precludes one from being fearful.

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Nihilistic Murderer - by CapnAwesome - March 5, 2015 at 11:03 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Exian - March 6, 2015 at 1:07 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by CapnAwesome - March 6, 2015 at 11:45 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Delysid - March 6, 2015 at 1:47 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Mudhammam - March 6, 2015 at 5:16 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Thumpalumpacus - March 6, 2015 at 5:59 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Neo-Scholastic - March 6, 2015 at 9:24 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by abaris - March 6, 2015 at 6:42 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by ManMachine - March 6, 2015 at 9:10 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by CapnAwesome - March 6, 2015 at 12:00 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Nope - March 6, 2015 at 12:24 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Spooky - March 6, 2015 at 8:34 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Losty - March 6, 2015 at 9:17 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Nope - March 6, 2015 at 9:37 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Spooky - March 6, 2015 at 1:18 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Delysid - March 8, 2015 at 1:03 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Whateverist - March 8, 2015 at 1:09 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Wyrd of Gawd - March 14, 2015 at 3:44 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by abaris - March 6, 2015 at 10:05 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by JuliaL - March 6, 2015 at 10:36 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by abaris - March 6, 2015 at 10:48 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Losty - March 6, 2015 at 11:04 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by JuliaL - March 6, 2015 at 11:13 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Thumpalumpacus - March 6, 2015 at 12:48 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by robvalue - March 6, 2015 at 9:29 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by comet - March 6, 2015 at 9:36 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Faith No More - March 6, 2015 at 11:16 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Neo-Scholastic - March 6, 2015 at 11:43 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Faith No More - March 6, 2015 at 12:14 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by CapnAwesome - March 6, 2015 at 12:24 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Faith No More - March 6, 2015 at 12:42 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by CapnAwesome - March 6, 2015 at 12:58 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Thumpalumpacus - March 6, 2015 at 1:06 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Faith No More - March 6, 2015 at 1:43 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by CapnAwesome - March 6, 2015 at 2:09 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Faith No More - March 6, 2015 at 2:40 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Neo-Scholastic - March 6, 2015 at 10:25 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by CapnAwesome - March 6, 2015 at 12:34 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by CapnAwesome - March 6, 2015 at 11:50 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Faith No More - March 6, 2015 at 12:27 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Losty - March 6, 2015 at 11:47 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by AFTT47 - March 6, 2015 at 11:57 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by CapnAwesome - March 6, 2015 at 1:08 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Thumpalumpacus - March 6, 2015 at 1:27 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by CapnAwesome - March 6, 2015 at 1:53 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Thumpalumpacus - March 6, 2015 at 2:34 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by CapnAwesome - March 6, 2015 at 2:57 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Thumpalumpacus - March 6, 2015 at 3:13 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by CapnAwesome - March 6, 2015 at 3:29 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Neo-Scholastic - March 6, 2015 at 11:38 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Thumpalumpacus - March 7, 2015 at 3:35 am
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Faith No More - March 6, 2015 at 3:23 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by CapnAwesome - March 6, 2015 at 1:22 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Faith No More - March 6, 2015 at 1:55 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Nope - March 6, 2015 at 1:23 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by AFTT47 - March 6, 2015 at 2:28 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Mudhammam - March 6, 2015 at 2:29 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by CapnAwesome - March 6, 2015 at 2:37 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Mudhammam - March 6, 2015 at 4:11 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by CapnAwesome - March 6, 2015 at 4:14 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Mudhammam - March 6, 2015 at 4:23 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by CapnAwesome - March 6, 2015 at 4:31 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Mudhammam - March 6, 2015 at 4:55 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Thumpalumpacus - March 6, 2015 at 3:28 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Pizza - March 6, 2015 at 11:22 pm
RE: Nihilistic Murderer - by Whateverist - March 7, 2015 at 12:06 am



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