Premeditated morality, assasination, general blueadeptness

Delving further into questions of killing and limits

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[blueadept111chats]

10 billion could be used save a lot of other lives... what makes those people less special than the one you refuse to kill, and thereby forfeit the opportunity to save the larger number?

[blackacidlizzard]

Because in that case the question to me is "does the individual deserve it?" Barring defense, I refuse to kill the undeserving. (defense gets very hazy at times, obviously)

If killing an innocent person to serve a "greater good" is acceptable, then every individual is worthless. How then can a larger number of individuals have any value?

[WAITES1234]

I actually see the ones who give the initial orders as more culpable than the ordered .....this relates to your comments on the state and CP.......Y

[blackacidlizzard]

In some sense, yes. But while I understand the mentality of a soldier, I cannot imagine anything but pure evil as the justification within one's mind when taking a child from an overall good home.

[bayleavesrap2]

in answer to a question I see, wierd..

[thedarkcook]

good video.

[blackacidlizzard]

"crippling the entire nation and military"

Heh , pretty funny considering what's going on with mission objectives and ROE these days. If the man who busted your leg and continued to stand over you, sledgehammer in hand, was shot dead - would the shooter be guilty of crippling you?

Let the Young Captians and E-7s take charge, Iraq will be done quick, and we won't be hanging around playing "prop up the newborn theocracy".

[blackacidlizzard]

100% agreement there, mysterywalker.

I'm always horrified at those who give justification for the "save the king, sacrifice the pawm" morality.

Recently saw the following justification: that assasination can cripple the entire nation and military, therefore we want to keep our "gentlemans' agreement" with other nations that we will only kill Billy-Bob the gunbunny and Habib the trapmaker, never the ones responsible.

[mysterywalker]

I've always felt that, given the fact of wars, it would be more moral to assassinate enemy leadership, rather than their low level fighters. if nothing else, you'd end up killing fewer people

[blackacidlizzard]

And no, it is not to justify myself, I justify myself in other ways, and I like to think I am correct and not self-deluding in those justifications.