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Post by M David Steel on May 8, 2015 15:43:36 GMT -5
Why do people kill other people? The world would be so much better if everyone, regardless of who they are, where they're from and what they believe in, stuck to what seems to me a straight-forward, reasonable, simple rule - do not kill.
Yet many people have killed with intention to. So what is everyones' explanation on this?
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on May 8, 2015 16:18:01 GMT -5
It was self-defence! No need to make a passive aggressive thread about it, jeez.
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Post by penne on May 8, 2015 17:21:27 GMT -5
um
at first i felt this was an actually interesting thread topic, but maybe the question is too easy to answer. there are plenty of reasons:
being blinded by your emotions. general disregard for human life. also money. terrorism is like killing people to defend a cause. underappreciation of peaceful discourse as a means to resolve conflict. etc.
although i agree with you- all are reasons, none excuses or sufficient explanations
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Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on May 8, 2015 17:41:53 GMT -5
The rule is not that simple. People would just argue about what counts as killing. Like if you are allowed to kill animals or plants, or to let someone die even if you could do something against it.
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Post by BSam on May 8, 2015 17:46:09 GMT -5
i also agree that people should not kill people
when i say people i am including the state, ie capital punishmnet.
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Post by bandit on May 8, 2015 17:52:48 GMT -5
Yep, unjustified killing is bad.
But I like capital punishment. The only issue I have is the fact that innocent people have been executed, but that's a problem with the legal system itself, not capital punishment, which is merely one of many unfortunate situations in which a falsely accused person could end up.
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Post by BSam on May 8, 2015 17:58:39 GMT -5
perhps if these innocent people had been given a punishment that doesn't cause them to cease living i dunno whatever
what are you reasons for liking it, you've come into a thread asking "why do people kill i think people shojldn't kill" saying "well i like some killing"
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Post by BSam on May 8, 2015 18:09:47 GMT -5
it just seems barbaric and looking through the list of countries that still uses it's all countries that i assume are less advanced in some way with the exception of japan and the slightly possible exception of the united states.
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Post by bandit on May 8, 2015 18:30:13 GMT -5
There are some crimes for which I believe only capital punishment can deliver justice. Barbaric or not, there are now strict regulations, and I don't think it's any less effective than the rest of the prison system. (In comparison, of course, this system in itself could be considered barbaric when one observes progressive methods like the rehabilitation prisons in Scandinavia.)
As for innocent people being victims of it, I understand that it is an extreme circumstance and there's no undoing a wrongful execution, but there are people just the same who spend their entire lives in prison and are discovered to be innocent after their incarcerated death. I just don't think it's worth the removal of capital punishment entirely when we're already distancing ourselves from the problem in other ways.
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Post by BSam on May 8, 2015 18:56:14 GMT -5
(In comparison, of course, this system in itself could be considered barbaric when one observes progressive methods like the rehabilitation prisons in Scandinavia.) I agree with you here, but let's fix this one step at a time.
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Post by Charlie on May 8, 2015 21:00:30 GMT -5
Lol I could envisage being a murderer in the future. But like Ms Marple, not like a serial killer. You know how they murder as like crimes of passion or like revenge or whatever. Like that. But not really. I'm probs fictionalising a future experience. Capital punishment is dumb.
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Post by E.F. on May 8, 2015 21:26:13 GMT -5
In my mind, capital punishment is the ultimate hypocrisy.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on May 8, 2015 21:33:02 GMT -5
Jokes aside, self-defence is actually one of the top reasons for killings. My grandfather killed throughout his life two people who tried to rob him and were armed with knives. He says he prays for them to this day, but he says it's better them than him.
Also, in a state of war acts of terrorism can actually be understandable, I think, even if you don't support them; like the many attacks on Hitler and other Nazi leaders in WWII, or on Fidel Castro, or radical abolitionists during the American Civil War.
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