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Killing is not a part of your human experience because others do it for you.

• cedilla 6y ago
  Incredibly rarely police kills for me. Extremely rarely a soldier kills with the mandate of the parliament of my country. Killing is abnormal. Whenever someone is intentionally killed, it is a failure of society and an incredible tragedy.
  • humanrebar 6y ago
    What is the reasonable additional cost in lives of citizens in order to capture a Bin Laden type terrorist alive, hold a public trial, and presumably sentence him to life in prison? Taking someone like that out with a bullet or a drone is much less risky operationally. They also avoid the additional geopolitical complexity of needing occupying forces in the relevant country. Maybe there should be some pre-operation due process rights, but it seems callous in other ways to insist on non-violence in all cases. Especially in response to catastrophic violence.
    • watwut 6y ago
      Afaik, drones also kill a lot of civilians that had nothing to do with anything.
  • gnull 6y ago
    > Killing is abnormal. Whenever someone is intentionally killed, it is a failure of society and an incredible tragedy. For the victim of killing, there's no difference between "being killed" and "dying". It's not that your life gets less valuable or your pain gets eased if you die from natural causes. And eventually we all die, death itself is not abnormal, then what's the big deal about killing? Killing is not a tragedy. Dying early if you could live longer is a tragedy.