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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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[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.

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[vengeful_virtue]

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

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[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.

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[vengeful_virtue]

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

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[gonnabe1st]

It would be good, but it would not necessarily be just. I've learned to differentiate.