Is It Ever Right to Kill
Is it ever right to kill?
What is Killing?
What is killing? Well the dictionary definition is: to cause death/the act of causing death. But is that enough? I s there another type of killing? A type that is justifiable. For example if a person steals or puts you in mortal danger is it acceptable to take their life in return? But more importantly is it morally right?
In this journey I hope to answer all these questions if not more, but also explore the views of theists, atheists and agnostics this kind of study (of morals, virtues and ethics) is called Deontological study.
Sometimes it is “tolerable” to kill in dire consequences and extreme conditions, the people who follow ethics that are variable are called Relativists and the people who stick with their rules through-and-through are known as absolutists, as they are absolute with their rules.
In Some religions if you kill you are branded as a “sinner” for life and have to live your life in shame, however in some, so called “religions” it is their duty to convert and they don’t care how they do it. This group of people are often called fanatics or extremists for an obvious reason.
Absolute or relative?
In the world there are two types of ethical beings; on one side we have relative ethics and on the other we have the absolute ethics. The two “sects” have different ways of life. Relative ethics are a set of moral rules that are only to be broken if at the cost of lives. Absolute ethics state that you should never break the moral code even if you are to die, which I think you will agree is pretty extreme.
For example, imagine a scenario two Buddhist’s, one is a relativist and the other is an absolutist. The ethics of Buddha clearly states, “Refrain from destroying living creatures” but in the same scenario there would have been two different consequences the relativist’s name, in this case is Bob and the absolutist’s name is Jim. Lets see how they cope with this scenario:
Bob’s story
Bob was peacefully
What is Killing?
What is killing? Well the dictionary definition is: to cause death/the act of causing death. But is that enough? I s there another type of killing? A type that is justifiable. For example if a person steals or puts you in mortal danger is it acceptable to take their life in return? But more importantly is it morally right?
In this journey I hope to answer all these questions if not more, but also explore the views of theists, atheists and agnostics this kind of study (of morals, virtues and ethics) is called Deontological study.
Sometimes it is “tolerable” to kill in dire consequences and extreme conditions, the people who follow ethics that are variable are called Relativists and the people who stick with their rules through-and-through are known as absolutists, as they are absolute with their rules.
In Some religions if you kill you are branded as a “sinner” for life and have to live your life in shame, however in some, so called “religions” it is their duty to convert and they don’t care how they do it. This group of people are often called fanatics or extremists for an obvious reason.
Absolute or relative?
In the world there are two types of ethical beings; on one side we have relative ethics and on the other we have the absolute ethics. The two “sects” have different ways of life. Relative ethics are a set of moral rules that are only to be broken if at the cost of lives. Absolute ethics state that you should never break the moral code even if you are to die, which I think you will agree is pretty extreme.
For example, imagine a scenario two Buddhist’s, one is a relativist and the other is an absolutist. The ethics of Buddha clearly states, “Refrain from destroying living creatures” but in the same scenario there would have been two different consequences the relativist’s name, in this case is Bob and the absolutist’s name is Jim. Lets see how they cope with this scenario:
Bob’s story
Bob was peacefully