In absolute terms there is, imo, nothing wrong with killing anyone or anything at any time. We live in a world built on killing. Unless we fix sunlight or inorganic compounds to live- we are all living off the death of other organisms. Death is all around. There is nothing inherently (imo) wrong with death or killing. Subjectively, of course, we don't want to die. Thus that little "intuitive" voice (self preservation, imo) tells us if we don't respect the lives of other people like us, our life may not be very safe. That same little voice is built into religions, because (imo) people make up religions- so all human fears and idiosyncrasies show up there.
Subjectively, and unabsolutely, I am probably more opposed to killing than most people. I hate having to kill to live every day of my life. I try to kill only plants- but it still makes me feel part of a very soiled chain of death and destruction. I wish life were organized around other principles. Why? Because I can quite easily imagine organisms much more advanced than us, that looked at us like plants- chomp chomp.
In conclusion- it is merely the basis of morality that I am talking about. No agnostic that I know would think it was "ok" to kill anyone else, and agnostics seem to be much less likely to commit crimes than other people. PErhaps because we know that right and wrong are very tenuous, that they hang upon a slim societal thread, and that every action must be though about carefully. |
