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Does Kermit deserve the death penalty for this?
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Originally posted by notyoueither View PostThere are many examples where the law is not just, and in some of them it is entirely morally justified for private citizens to act to stop injustice.
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Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View PostNo. That's my point. Glad you figured it out.
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Originally posted by kentonio View PostSure, let's just start executing anyone who we disagree with, that will surely create a happy and safe society for our families.
The reverse of what you are arguning is that all orders need be obeyed. That is not the case, morally or legally.(\__/)
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Originally posted by notyoueither View PostThe reverse of what you are arguning is that all orders need be obeyed. That is not the case, morally or legally.
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The real reason why murdering an abortion doctor isn't moral is because even if you feel stopping abortions from happening is worth killing for ... you don't achieve your end. The murder likely didn't stop a single abortion. Just who performed some of them.
Now ... if you were killing lots of abortion doctors (and/or women who got abortions), maybe you could achieve your end by creating enough fear in people that they would stop being abortion doctors or getting abortions.
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Another thing that needs to be taken into account is how murdering a single abortion doctor probably only weakens political support for your position, so even ignoring the morality of the murder in-and-of-itself, the act would actually be immoral from the perspective of the murder.
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Originally posted by kentonio View PostOf course not, but when you live in a modern democracy with careful safeguards on governmental power, that becomes nothing more than a useful excuse for breaking the law. The test should be quite simple, can you achieve your goals through the application of the democratic process? Because if you can, then resorting to violence is completely unacceptable.
I would think that someone willing to kill to stop abortions likely believes that the majority is being tyrannical.(\__/)
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Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View PostWhile I think our constitution is better than anyone else's, it's not perfect. Laws aren't perfect. Laws aren't always just. What is morally right and what is legal are not the same.
We try to make laws correlate to morals as much as we can, and we use them because consistency is in many ways even more important than justice.
By the way, the idea of rebelling against injust laws isn't mine. It's Thomas Jefferson's:
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.
Note the "light and transient causes" bit--that's why we don't constantly revolt because our taxes are too high.“As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
"Capitalism ho!"
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Originally posted by Aeson View PostThe real reason why murdering an abortion doctor isn't moral is because even if you feel stopping abortions from happening is worth killing for ... you don't achieve your end. The murder likely didn't stop a single abortion. Just who performed some of them.
Now ... if you were killing lots of abortion doctors (and/or women who got abortions), maybe you could achieve your end by creating enough fear in people that they would stop being abortion doctors or getting abortions.“As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
"Capitalism ho!"
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Originally posted by notyoueither View PostI would think that someone willing to kill to stop abortions likely believes that the majority is being tyrannical.
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abortion smortion, 90,000 little Australians were terminated last year, the numbers are staggeringAny views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..
Look, I just don't anymore, okay?
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