For what reasons could you kill somebody without regret?

[Ben Kenobi]

somebody has revenge fantasies that involve killing somebody else, e.g. "I need a gun to protect my property"

Uh. "I need a gun to protect my property" has nothing to do with revenge. I have the right to live where I live without fear of trespassers. Someone trespasses on my property is the first thing I'm going to do is shoot them? No. But at the same time, would it help me to be prepared? Yes. My family is here, and I have an obligation to protect them.

As for killing someone without regrets, eh I've only felt that way a few times. Assaulting family members is a good way to get on that list.

[loinburger]

Having a gun to protect yourself or your family? Sure, I don't see anything objectionable about that. Having a gun to protect your property? That seems a bit extreme to me. The two situations are related, i.e. if somebody is trespassing and stealing your **** then you and your family are probably in some danger, so it's largely a matter of how somebody phrases things: "I need a gun to protect my family" expresses a far different intent than "I need a gun to protect my property."

[Sava]

The only reason I'd regret is if I got caught


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[Ben Kenobi]

Having a gun to protect yourself or your family? Sure, I don't see anything objectionable about that. Having a gun to protect your property? That seems a bit extreme to me. The two situations are related, i.e. if somebody is trespassing and stealing your **** then you and your family are probably in some danger, so it's largely a matter of how somebody phrases things: "I need a gun to protect my family" expresses a far different intent than "I need a gun to protect my property."

Primary residence I would see as related, especially given intrusions late at night. Car, would depend on the circumstances. Up north, stealing a car during the winter is a tremendous deal because in a rural area, you could put someone's life in danger.

I have the property so me and my family have a place to live. We should be able to protect ourselves, and I don't see owning a gun for those purposes as terribly disproportionate.

[Egbert]

Braindead must die after that.

Oerdin wants to murder me because I posted a picture of a smile in another thread.

[Proteus_MST]

As this is a hypothetical question:
Any ISIS fighter of western origin who uses the sex slavery system of ISIS for his own pleasure and abuses his slaves


Although I have to add that IMHO a better punishment for such individuals would be, to have them undergo an enforced mtf gender reassignment surgery and then put themselves as slaves into the ISIS sex slave system

[C0ckney]

Oerdin wants to murder me because I posted a picture of a smile in another thread.

but would he regret it?

[ricketyclik]

My first wife and I aborted an unwanted phoetus very early in our relationship, while we were both in first year university. I regard this as killing someone, and I have no regrets.

[FlameFlash]

To answer lion's question: I would have no regret in killing somebody who was about to do direct harm to my family without my intervention.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

If they were terminally ill, in pain, and asking me to kill them.

[KrazyHorse]

Defence of self or family (both from risk of death or from serious harm)
Defence of strangers' lives
As part of a morally justified war
Euthanasia on somebody's request

I am not sure about capital punishment. As pure revenge for a grievous crime I would feel bad later (though I can imagine myself committing such an act with extreme enough circumstances). As a calculated deterrent, the evidence is mixed - if it could be demonstrated to be effective, I would have no moral compunctions, but might not have the stomach for it.

[KrazyHorse]

As far as pure defence of property, no. The example I'm thinking about to isolate this from fear of bodily harm is watching a thief break into my car and begin to drive off. If armed I would yell at him to stop, but would have no urge to shoot him.

[Elok]

I don't imagine it's psychologically possible for a healthy person, under normal circumstances, to kill "somebody" (ie, a being they regarded as a person) without some measure of regret. Whether they would regard the killing as morally valid in spite of that visceral pain is an entirely different question.

. . . and yes, that's totally a ***** answer, right there. My answer to the question as I reinterpreted it is basically Kitty's, minus the euthanasia bit.

[Tuberski]

I would find it much easier to kill a person than to kill an animal. But still, not easy.

Bodily harm to myself or others.

ACK!

[Lorizael]

I would feel no regret about killing a person so long as, in doing so, five other people were not crushed by a train.