Why is killing [a person] wrong?

Tell me.

Why is it right?

If the only way to save your own life was by killing, I'd consider it acceptable.

After all, the most basic primal instinct of all life is to preserve one's own self first and foremost. Laws of Nature.

Originally posted by DarkC
If the only way to save your own life was by killing, I'd consider it acceptable.

Or if you're saving another's life.

*SIGHS LOUDLY.*

Okay. Allow me to rephrase:

Why is killing someone--that is to say, murdering someone, unprovoked and without reason--wrong?

What else would it be?

Originally posted by FeceMan
*SIGHS LOUDLY.*

Okay. Allow me to rephrase:

Why is killing someone--that is to say, murdering someone, unprovoked and without reason--wrong?

Originally posted by FeceMan
*SIGHS LOUDLY.*

Okay. Allow me to rephrase:

Why is killing someone--that is to say, murdering someone, unprovoked and without reason--wrong?

Oh, it's like he's annoyed because people didn't respond explicitly to his question! Oh, it's all too much for him! Oh! Oh! Oh!

My bet is he thinks he's gots them real brain smarts. As soon as someone gives him the answer he's looking for, he's going to start running with it as an argument against the right to abortion, or use it to facilitate his opinion on some other nonsense idea.

How wonderful. He got us.

Originally posted by FeceMan
Tell me.

It isn't.

Originally posted by FeceMan
Tell me.

Because it isn't your right to take away life. Living is a basic right.

May I kill you with no motive?

Originally posted by FeceMan
*SIGHS LOUDLY.*

Okay. Allow me to rephrase:

Why is killing someone--that is to say, murdering someone, unprovoked and without reason--wrong?

there is no tangible reason or definative answer for any of our morals.
the outcome of this thread, abridged: "it just is".

didnt we already do this with "why is rape wrong?" or something like that?

Originally posted by Phoenix2001
May I kill you with no motive?

You may. I might try to protect myself, though. And Society might kill you in return. Are you fine with that? Then cool, go ahead.

I don't necessarily think actual murder is excusable, understandable in some cases, sure.

I don't think killing a person in general is wrong. There are many avenues to which it can be excusable. Murder, a specific type of killing, is wrong to me. As a concept. I believe you have to judge each case as it comes though. Like I said in the first line.

-AC

You've got, like, a cycle thing going on there, right?

You've got it, kid. You's gaht it.

-AC

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
I don't necessarily think actual murder is excusable, understandable in some cases, sure.

I don't think killing a person in general is wrong. There are many avenues to which it can be excusable. Murder, a specific type of killing, is wrong to me. As a concept. I believe you have to judge each case as it comes though. Like I said in the first line.

-AC

the overused point of this philosophical topic:

for your example of 'murder', explain why its wrong.
the whole point is that you'll never come up with a reason,
but rather only be able to site laws and personal/social/universal morals.

Originally posted by PVS
didnt we already do this with "why is rape wrong?" or something like that?

Oh, that's it. I kept thinking "We've been here before..."

Yeah, it's the same deal as that thread:

Killing a person is wrong because it is a physically detrimental attack on a person with an ultimate outcome that can not be reversed.

Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
Killing a person is wrong because it is a physically detrimental attack on a person with an ultimate outcome that can not be reversed.

but...why is a "physically detrimental attack on a person with an ultimate outcome that can not be reversed" wrong?.

this can go on forever

I guess because it's detrimental, or are we all getting mired in semantics?