I'll give it to you on the self-defense issue... because there is an urgency that leads to the mentality of "kill or be killed"... But I don't see that same urgency, or necessity, to kill out of revenge, or through judicial processes.
As far as killing the terrorist... It would be ok, in my eyes, to kill if that terrorist was in the act of lethal terrorism and there was no other way to stop him.
Killing should be a last resort...
I'm still bothered by the apparent contradictions of the belief that sometimes it's ok to kill, while other times it is not... I'm even more bothered that I seem to share this contradictory belief.
ThePackLeader Wrote:
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> Killing is ok in self-defense, or in the carrying
> out of a judicial process regarding an individual
> actually guilty of murder. Murder on the other
> hand, is when someone was killed for no reason
> (ie, There was no reason to believe that the
> taking of a life was required, or necessary). I
> think most would agree that it's okay to shoot a
> terrorist dead, or someone breaking into your
> home, but that it's wrong for some mugger to clip
> an old lady simply because he wanted her wallet.
> The two former examples represent a necessary
> level of defense in being able to secure ones
> sanctity and security, whereas the latter is
> representative of a maliciousness which has no
> justifiable purpose whatsoever.
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