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[vengeful_virtue]

A morality question for you all:

Are all lives worth the same? Would you consider an aged serial killer's life to be of the same worth as, say, an innocent newborn or a charity worker's?

And if not, how does one know the difference?

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[anon for safety's sake]

[killerbaseball]

We, as human beings, are psychologically "wired", so to speak, to find some lives more valuable than others.

Now, from an impartial, and, shall I even say, professional point of view, there is no difference. What really matters is the motive behind the murder. This IS about murder, correct?

[vengeful_virtue]

It was not strictly about murder, though I suppose it could be construed that way. What do you mean by a 'professional point of view', if I might ask?

[yep, anon forever]

[killerbaseball]

This is my line of business, you see.

[yep, anon forever]

[vengeful_virtue]

I see. You are an assassin or hitman of some kind?

[vengeful_virtue]

I see. So if there were the choice of saving, say, a two hundred people who were a hundred years old and would not live long anyway, or a hundred young children, you would save the two hundred?

[vengeful_virtue]

What if you were in no position for rescue? What if all you could do was choose one group or another?

[locked]

[gonnabe1st]

A life is a life in the end, at least before the law. But as people, we aren't as blind as justice supposedly is.

In the end it's up to what you would rather have your concience deal with, but killing someone is not justified by the age, remaining lifespan or history of a person.

[locked]

[vengeful_virtue]

What if the decision is not based on killing, but on saving one person over another? What then?

[locked]

[gonnabe1st]

In the end it might as well be the same thing, depending on what you're saving them from. The only difference is that they die because you do nothing instead of because you do something to them.

But to answer your question. I am not noble, neither am I just. If it's an opportunity to get rid of someone who has, in my eyes and according to my knowledge, done wrong, then I would not go out of my way to protect them.

[locked]

[vengeful_virtue]

I do not think it would be unjust to protect those who would do right over those that do not.

[hislostlover]

All lives carry the same value.

[vengeful_virtue]

So an aged serial killer's life would carry the same weight as an innocent child's?

[hislostlover]

Yes.

[vengeful_virtue]

Would you save one over the other if given a choice?

[joinedtoengland]

Before God we are all the same, but most of us have not the luxury of that view. In Our eyes we needs must look to England's future when considering the value of a life.

It is callous, but while I may send our men to war on the continent, I cannot risk myself the same as they. Should I die as I am, without issue or named heir, I am sure this nation would fall to dreadful civil war. At times I think this dichotomy is monstrous, but elsewise it is only practical.

I love that she's the one who's answer is closest to V's ^ ^

[vengeful_virtue]

I think you are right in that much. There are circumstances that should be taken into consideration if one is put in the position of saving one life over another. Perhaps they are all worth the same in the end but practicalities do need to be considered.

she's going to get some truth from him some day!

[joinedtoengland]

We are in no position to be as God, after all.

May I ask what brought on the question?

One day, perhaps! But V is very secretive >:3

[vengeful_virtue]

Curiosity, mainly. This place seems to have gathered quite the motley crew, not all of whom have noble ideals.