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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:

if someone *must* be taken out, it should be an utterly dispassionate act

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Originally posted by AnthonyT:
It's another to murder them, passionately or dispassionately, once your life is no longer in imminent danger.

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Some pseudo-Buddhist scholars of the sword imagine that there is a state of fluid perfection, called "enlightenment," in which one can act at each and every moment without reflection or doubt, the spontaneous act being the only one suitable to that particular moment. The enlightened one, then, could cut down an individual without murderous intention, in their intuitive all-encompassing understanding that the interpenetrating web of universe is best served that this individual die. The slaughtered one's life is culminated and, in fact, "demands" death at this moment to be properly fulfilled.

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When I interviewed that boy, I knew what he was capable of doing. I had no expectation that treatment would help him, but that was the best suggestion I could come up with. I knew he would, sooner or later, do something horrible to some poor child.

Am I a moral failure in that I did not kill him?

Is it my responsibility merely to offer therapy to those I can, teach as many people as I can how to protect themselves from violence, saving myself to raise my sons, saving myself, therefore, from the consequences of what I knew was going to happen?

I could have saved the child he raped an unimaginable world of pain, and probably other children, too, when he finally gets out of prison. Were you to hear that I had killed him, solely based on my intuition and assessment, what would be your reaction?

My own answer to this question is the choice I made, but I will be haunted until my death at the thought of that child, her flesh ground into a sidewalk, the sun beating down upon her pain, indifferent as the flat, shark eyes of her rapist.

What, then, is the sword that gives life?

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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:
See, from a theological aspect, the principles I abide by require that if someone *must* be taken out, it should be an utterly dispassionate act regardless of their own deeds or ones one personal enmity, because to do less contaminates the act spiritually.

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Originally posted by canttakesky:
If another human being must be killed, it must be done with the utmost regret, thanking them for their sacrifice that others may live

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