Is it ever ok to take another humans life?
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Is it ever ok to take another humans life?
Post #1Is it? And why? Is it ok to either take someones last chance of being saved and send them to hell if they aren't a Christian? Or to kill your brother in the Lord?
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I can come up with many reasons to kill and cal it morally right. Here are a few:
1. In self defense. Someone is coming at you with a weapon in order to kill you. I believe you have a moral right to defend yourself which includes killing the attacker.
2. To end suffering. This is mercy killing in effect. Someone is dying, but in major suffering and wants the pain to end. (Imagine you are far from any pain killers and the person will die in hours). I think it is ethical to end their suffering with death.
3. Trolly problem. This is used as an exercise in utilitarianism, but most people agree with the first part. A trolly is going down a track on which five people are on it and they will die if the trolly hits them. You are next to a lever that can change the tracks so it will go down a different route. However, there is one person on that track. Do you push the button to switch the tracks to save the five people and doom one? Most people say they would do it.
I could come up with others but they probably get weird like doing dangerous human drug testing to cure a disease that is wiping out humanity. Or killing yourself (self murder) to save another.
1. In self defense. Someone is coming at you with a weapon in order to kill you. I believe you have a moral right to defend yourself which includes killing the attacker.
2. To end suffering. This is mercy killing in effect. Someone is dying, but in major suffering and wants the pain to end. (Imagine you are far from any pain killers and the person will die in hours). I think it is ethical to end their suffering with death.
3. Trolly problem. This is used as an exercise in utilitarianism, but most people agree with the first part. A trolly is going down a track on which five people are on it and they will die if the trolly hits them. You are next to a lever that can change the tracks so it will go down a different route. However, there is one person on that track. Do you push the button to switch the tracks to save the five people and doom one? Most people say they would do it.
I could come up with others but they probably get weird like doing dangerous human drug testing to cure a disease that is wiping out humanity. Or killing yourself (self murder) to save another.
