Thread: Am I Evil?

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

I THINK you get what I'm saying, apart from 'Thou shall kill', I'm pretty sure you mean 'Though shall NOT kill'

Also, again, I'm not talking of killing someone who is NOT innocent, as in someone attacking my family or me or even someone else, it's about killing an INNOCENT person, and yeah, tarnishing my soul.

I'm thinking maybe i would be forgiven, BUT, imagine if we ALL played the game? Imagine now if NONE of us played the game?

Good conversation this subject has generated...

Okay so here is where I got lost..... “Would you kill a person to save others from dying?”. Stupid me assumes that this person is doing/going to do something that would make them less than innocent. Not surprising that I take a natural defensive posture in this scenario based on the limited facts of just that sentence. No matter what is said after that I am on the defensive and so I am now lost.

I would edit that post but then you would have to edit yours and so on and so on,,,,, :<0) NOT

Originally Posted by 10Pups

Okay so here is where I got lost..... “Would you kill a person to save others from dying?”. Stupid me assumes that this person is doing/going to do something that would make them less than innocent. Not surprising that I take a natural defensive posture in this scenario based on the limited facts of just that sentence. No matter what is said after that I am on the defensive and so I am now lost.

I would edit that post but then you would have to edit yours and so on and so on,,,,, :<0) NOT

In the words of Mr. Spock, "'The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one."

Now since Spock said it, we all know it's both true and logical.

Settled.

So what if you knew that you were going to do something terrible, would you take your own life?

Originally Posted by edhewitt

So what if you knew that you were going to do something terrible, would you take your own life?

Is this a new thread now???

Me I just couldn't. If I crossed over to the dark side there would be a terrible tremor in the force.

The problem here is, that the one guy you need to kill to save the other people, happens to be a friend of mine. So I am going to have to kill the person who is trying to kill the person in order to save people. Chance are really good I don't much like the people he is trying to save anyway. (even if I dont know them at all, chances are I dont like them much)

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Would you kill one of your children to save another if the other option was all of you dying; or just your children; both of them.

So Carl, How do you get yourself in such a nasty situation & do you really believe the guy that's giving you this ultimatum is going to honour the bargain ?

Originally Posted by 10Pups

Is this a new thread now???

Me I just couldn't. If I crossed over to the dark side there would be a terrible tremor in the force.

No, just a branch in the thread. It one of my talents.

dance with the devil in the pale moonlight. Devil being your conscious. of which you seem to have.

make a choice and attempt to mitigate the consequences as much as possible.

Or pull a dexter, hunt your nemesis and dispose of the leftovers by feeding the sharks.

Ya I did just start watching a series from 2006.

On the other hand you could just stop posing such questions to yourself when intoxicated as it seems they cause you some amount of consternation.

Honestly, you can hypothetical these things until no one has any choice about anything. It's what's so frustrating about hypotheticals.

Carl, in your hypothetical about killing one child to save the family or whatever, I'd suggest that:

1. If the scenario involved a serial killer, it's not your choice about which kid to kill that is the bad thing, it is the serial killer putting you and your family in that position that is the bad thing. Credit where credit is due;

2. In any other scenario involving your hypothetical, I strongly believe that the only person's life you have the right to sacrifice is your own.

James.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

No, just a branch in the thread. It one of my talents.

He got hit in the head with that branch and deviated.(the devil made me say it.....by threat of death)