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It's not always wrong to kill someone. It's both legal and moral to kill someone in self defense if they're threatening your life and you have no alternative.
by safety1st 4y ago
It's not always wrong to kill someone. It's both legal and moral to kill someone in self defense if they're threatening your life and you have no alternative.
It is legal and moral for police to use violence against someone who poses an immediate threat to those around them, preferably detaining, but if necessary killing them.
It was by and large moral (though not legal) for all colonies and colonized people to violently oppose and overthrow the colonial powers that oppressed them. When enemy soldiers arrived and they killed those soldiers, they did the right thing.
None of these cases are examples of two wrongs making a right. They are examples of people doing the right thing in response to a wrong, even though it was difficult.
- wpietri 4y agoI agree with your point, but think you're using a different definition of "a wrong" than the person I was replying to. Surely there were very few British soldiers whose dying thoughts were "this bayonet in my guts is right and proper". That's not to deny that the anti-colonials stabbing them were right, of course. My point is just that writing a wrong via harm will seem like a wrong to the harmed. Of course, the writing of a wrong even with no harm will often be taken as a wrong by the people losing privilege, so I'd also agree that we can't use mere feelings of being wronged as wrongs themselves.