rant plus death cab

[fearforforever]

rant-is killing someone a crime?

Death cab was fabulous this past evening, no doubt. first time i saw them and i met this wonderful girl there that is friends with a friend i've had named whitney. of course, bob nanna and ben barnett were wandering around, damned rock stars. anyhow, just thought i'd post. leave some for the rant. talk to you all

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[letterexchange]

I just don't know how much more "out of the box" I can really go about this. Killing someone that directly threatens your own life is not criminal nor immoral. Abortion, "mercy killings", euthenasia, murder (you know, the standard kind), revenge killings (i.e., you rape or kill my daughter, so i kill you) are all illegal and immoral. I also think the death penalty is wrong. It's not that I have a moral or legal problem with it. My problem is that its not enough. I think if someone does something worthy of capital punishment, they shouldn't get the easy way out, and be put to work in some camp in Siberia and made to suffer a hard life of labor. And on the off chance they happen to be innocent we won't have to worry about putting an innocent person to death. The only killing that walks the line and falls under a "depends on the particular situation" umbrella would be killing others in war. I think in the defense of one's nation, that is a just nation, or the liberation of others, is ok. (I really don't want to start a discussion on the merits of our present war.) I think wars of genocide, aggression and domination (example: Hitler and Germany in WW2) are immoral and criminal. Also tying into the revenge killing issue, criminal and immoral would be killing to advance a political, social, economic, or religious cause. Terrorists blowing up people obviously is wrong, immoral, and down right fucking blasphemy. Or a social/politcal cause like bombing abortion clinics or assasinating abortion doctors. I despise abortion, but I also despise those who take justice (or divine justice in this case) into their own hands.

[fearforforever]

your rocking exactly my point, thanks chris and i love the reply, absolutely brilliant.