If I were to kill you

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In that case, I'll just skip to straight to the explanation of why I'm worthy of life: A man possesses his life, and until he violates another's life, is the sole manager of it. Ending me is stealing in it's highest form; stealing, not to have, but to steal. You did not earn my life, my life is not yours to take any more then it is yours to offer me. And as I have done nothing to violate my humanity (my rationality, thought, body, soul), I am still have sole rights over it.
You didn't say anything specific about your own life, you just simply said how humans in general posses life and own it.


If I kill you, I don't "have" your life, I simply ended it. How can someone steal something when they cannot own it? Its gone. It would be like going over to someone at a computer and shutting it off on them.

I have a feeling this question is going to lead to some point you are going to eventually make...

But the answer to the question is that you should not kill me because it is not your right to choose when I die.
Why should I care about that?

plus you didn't explain to me why your life has value.
 
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You didn't say anything specific about your own life, you just simply said how humans in general posses life and own it.


If I kill you, I don't "have" your life, I simply ended it. How can someone steal something when they cannot own it? Its gone. It would be like going over to someone at a computer and shutting it off on them.

By ending that which is not yours, you are assuming an ownership over it, claiming a right to stop it. But it is not anyone else's right.

If you want me to give a specific reason as to why I am deserving of life specifically, not just why everyone (including me) is worthy of life, then here: I am young and have great plans to change the world in my future!
 

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By ending that which is not yours, you are assuming an ownership over it, claiming a right to stop it. But it is not anyone else's right.

If you want me to give a specific reason as to why I am deserving of life specifically, not just why everyone (including me) is worthy of life, then here: I am young and have great plans to change the world in my future!
I bet many failures did too at one point.
 

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If I were to kill you would I need to explain why I'm killing you?
I don't know; would you?

should you explain to me why you deserve to live?
Should I? I think it would be more important to explain to you why you deserved to live and why what you were doing was wrong.

EDIT: Were*** yeah yeah its early
Well good morning then. Good afternoon now.
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I bet many failures did too at one point.

True; but existence is positive. Negatives are only an occasional setback that we should not worry about. When faced with the choice of me achieving (especially when it is one of my greatest values) and me failing, I think it is more likely that I am going to succeed.
 

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I will attempt to approach it from both sides:

-- Why are you killing me?

I would want to know what reason is behind your motive for killing me. I am open-minded, to an extent, to which I might actually agree with your decision to kill me, if for none but the greater chances at the human race surviving in a capacity that I can agree with. Of course, getting to that point would require much assumptions, which, during your explanation, would require reasoning with me, compromising on some points, to begin describing a base of opinion to which further explanation would be based on. Continuing from the base, multiple external sources and/or events would be needed to show prior deteriorating effects of my existence, whether locally -- inside of my family or community -- or part of a larger issue that is exponentially affecting the continued survival of the world. Unfortunately, at this point, if should the killer be able to get to this point of the explanation, they would have already been arrested by law enforcement, put to shame with some sort of counter-measures, or have shot themselves already due overwhelmingly incoherent and inconclusive evidence supporting terminating my life.

-- Why I should live?

This explanation would be slightly similar to that above, but the base would be toward more emotional reasons, dealing with family and friends, but expounded on to the point of the global affect of my termination, and the reasons for my living will be immediately understood. For a killer to sufficiently believe my death would be beneficial, they would come to realize that they only thought about certain aspects of a small group of effects, and not the overall picture.

These two scenarios are only possible with the confrontation method of killing. Distance style killings, such as remote bombing or sniper shot, would not allow this type of conversation to exist; the difficult task of explanation is avoided in these situations.
 
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