Good and evil are deep subjects. Just as one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, good and evil would seem to be in the eye of the beholder... but I don't believe they are. I believe there is an absolute good and an absolute evil, and that they are neither fluid nor relative.
They are no more subjective than Truth. Truth is always objective, but there is a class of person in this world that believes it to be subjective - "your Truth", "my Truth" His or her Truth". There are not versions of Truth, there is only Truth. And so it is with good and evil.
Is killing evil? Not necessarily. Without killing, there is no living - one must kill something, whether plant or animal, simply to eat. "Murder" is evil, but murder is not simple killing - it is UNJUSTIFIABLE killing - i.e. useless killing. But then the subject devolves into whether or not this person or that one can justify the killing in an objective manner.
Defending yourself from a deadly force is almost universally accepted as justification for using deadly force in return, to protect your own life. But what about defense of family? friends? Strangers? Your nation? It gets murkier the deeper you dive.
I'm a simple man, with a simple mind. So for me, it just boils down to self defense, or defense of a loved one, in the end. If a foreign soldier is trying to kill me, I'm gonna kill him right back. The politicians can hash out the politics of it, and bear the responsibility for that. All I know at the time is that guy over there is trying to end me, so I'm going to end him first if I can... and I expect he is doing the same.
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They are no more subjective than Truth. Truth is always objective, but there is a class of person in this world that believes it to be subjective - "your Truth", "my Truth" His or her Truth". There are not versions of Truth, there is only Truth. And so it is with good and evil.
Is killing evil? Not necessarily. Without killing, there is no living - one must kill something, whether plant or animal, simply to eat. "Murder" is evil, but murder is not simple killing - it is UNJUSTIFIABLE killing - i.e. useless killing. But then the subject devolves into whether or not this person or that one can justify the killing in an objective manner.
Defending yourself from a deadly force is almost universally accepted as justification for using deadly force in return, to protect your own life. But what about defense of family? friends? Strangers? Your nation? It gets murkier the deeper you dive.
I'm a simple man, with a simple mind. So for me, it just boils down to self defense, or defense of a loved one, in the end. If a foreign soldier is trying to kill me, I'm gonna kill him right back. The politicians can hash out the politics of it, and bear the responsibility for that. All I know at the time is that guy over there is trying to end me, so I'm going to end him first if I can... and I expect he is doing the same.
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