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Aside from the moral implications, why is it wrong to murder people?

We kill animals and plants for food, why is it wrong to murder people? I am trying to find an answer without the moral argument like"its bad" or "its illegal" can anyone answer this? I am not talking self defense or killing but...murder

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    Murder is wrong because it is the worst kind of stealing there is. Just as you enjoy living and would like to continue doing so other people do too and to take a life for no good reason, like self-defense or in defense of others who are incapable of defending themselves is stealing in that you are taking something that is not yours to take and in doing so you are not simply robbing one individual of his/her life, you are robbing many others of their son/daughter, mother/father, sister/brother, aunt/uncle, cousin, friend, playmate, bridge partner, newspaper carrier, classmate, neighbor, etc. The murder of one person impacts a great many people. Such a thing can tear families apart, can cause others to sicken and die, destroy relationships and often does. I speak as one whose family was impacted by the very brutal murder of a beloved son, uncle, brother, cousin and friend many years ago. My family was NEVER the same after that. NEVER. The person who stole my uncle's life stole my family's heart.

    That being said, abortion is NOT murder. I realize your question said nothing about abortion, however by posting a question about the moral argument against murder in the Pregnancy section I can't help but think you are trying to make some sort of idiotically emotional pro-life statement. Instead of wasting time on such foolishness as this, why not do something to work towards making this world a place in which abortion is an unneccessary procedure? No one but me has the right to tell me what I must do with my own body. I would rather not ever have an abortion and given access to affordable, reliable birth control as well as accurate family planning information I WON'T EVER HAVE TO!!!! No woman in her right mind WANTS to have an abortion, lots feel like they must have one because due to the lack of access to birth control and/or information they find themselves pregnant and unable to cope. They do not deserve judgement, they deserve HELP.

    If you truly equate abortion with murder you are a vicious, ignorant person who is in dire need of education and mental help.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    it is no longer incorrect to homicide human beings. We do it each and all of the time. like the homicide of animals there's a time and place for each little thing. you could homicide your individual cow, as an occasion, yet you could't homicide your acquaintances cow. you could kill a canines in Asia or maybe consume him, yet you had better save extremely approximately it must you do the comparable in usa. Cannibalism remains practiced, nonetheless often denied, in Amazon cultures. We freely homicide our enemies. And there are incredibly justifiable acts of homicide. Self protection being a brilliant one. police officers are each and every now and then suggested as upon to kill the extra violent individuals of society for us. Abortions are a socially proper sort of homicide and that i'm no longer asserting they are incorrect or undesirable, purely that they ensue. in actuality I accept as true with a woman's precise to have one. Drug addicts, cigarette human beings who smoke, alcoholics, daredevils, and human beings doing risky jobs, do those issues understanding finished properly that they might homicide themselves. you may merchandise to me calling a number of those acts homicide yet face it, all of them finally end up with precisely the comparable result, somebody is ineffective. the only factor that alterations between any of those deaths is the context. Is the context incredibly that substantial? Or is it in elementary terms a vogue of justifying homicide. I post to you that homicide occurs each and all of the time and in lots of extra techniques than you could think of. human beings homicide one yet another and human beings homicide themselves nonetheless their strikes and intensely some forms of homicide are thoroughly proper. All we do is substitute our theory and not our actuality. human beings nevertheless die!

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    wow

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