(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.