eet eez hehtrehd ahv zee sehlv brohjehktehd ahpahn zee leemehr
You are not allowed. I will not pay you any mind from this point on. How do you feel about that?
Not allowed what ?
No, no... don't bother to respond. I won't read what you have to say from this moment forward.
You will read. Just might not respond.
I am your guide to a better you. It's just your ego and emotions distract you, It clouds your judgement, so you choose to push and run away.
As far as society goes I understand why murder is viewed as unethical, you don't want people killing anyone that irritated them, that would cause anarchy. However I personally don't find it unethical or reprehensible at all, I am quite curious as to how it would feel to kill somebody and regularly entertain thoughts of murder. I carry a switchblade on me at all times for no reason then that if someone ever attacks me I could kill them and try to get off with "self defense" in court.
Always difficult to pinpoint exactly where your own moral ideas come from and where you want to go with them.
Most people just have a general feeling about what is OK. Some back it up by religion but truth is they would have the same feeling anyway. Most people are hardwired living in a group. You depend on the group, the group depends on you. Conflicts within the group are kept to a minimum because you cannot function in a community if you start to randomly killing each other.
Denying that most humans are pack animals is just stupid. We have survived this far in history because our pack.
The way people have lived most of the history, the own group was rather small. Killing people outside the group was probably fine morally if there was enough reason for it.
In today's world we don't have a clan, we might have a family only. We might or might not include our town and our country but to be honest when most people are strangers to us, we just have one piece of the equation left why not to kill. The one we were born with. The other reason we did not kill was that we knew each other. We don't anymore. Still one of two still keep people from going on rampages.
Could someone reply to this post? I'm not sure if you meant it as a bait but I was going to argue why killing is wrong but I couldn't think of anything tangible. The thing that came to mind was that I wouldn't like to be killed so other people most likely wouldn't like to be killed either. I'm not really sure how to get a hold of it from a logical point of view, though.
Do you find killing to be ok? If so, why? I realize it's a pretty general question.
e: As a side note, I still haven't read the whole discussion
Hey, thanks for the replies!
@SensitiveSoul:
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. It's true that a lot of people's achievements have been thanks to cooperation and it seems to be working ok. I'm still not entirely sure why I would only think of my own benefit, though, and base my logic on that. I'm usually not in the center of things, not on local, global or universal scale.
@Demon:
Interesting thoughts, thanks for sharing. I personally think the deaths of people close to me are always tragic. If a shark eats my friend I would still find it tragic. The reason I probably wouldn't be as angry at the shark as I would be at a person is because the shark is not as intelligent as a person.
There's very little chance of the shark understanding that I'm angry at it because it killed my friend. No matter what kind of punishment people gave the shark, it would not understand it's being punished because it killed someone.
As for whether it would make a difference how long people live; I can relate to your logic on some level. The reason I would prefer people to live longer rather than shorter is because I personally enjoy living, and so if I had to choose
between someone else living and not living I would lean prefer to lean for living so that they can also enjoy themselves.
Even if I was angry at someone I don't think it would give me much satisfaction to see them die. I suppose that also depends on how angry I would be. Most of the time I forgive people pretty easily and I don't take things to heart too
much. A lot of the time when I've been angry I've realized later on that I was at fault.