Tim Fowler seems to think that God did not speak clearly enough. He thought "Thou Shall not Kill" to mean "Thou shall not commit murder one (1)"
I said nothing about "murder one", I just said murder. In the old testament God supported killings by Israel in a number of circumstances, including killing in wars to take territory.
I don't remember Moses carrying any attachments to the Ten Commandments. There was nothing about Murder II or III. I suppose you could read plea bargaining into the ten Commandments.
No attachments where needed. The commandment itself was thou shall not murder.
There is no recognizable religion, philosophy or school of thought that lays out a functioning society the permits killing of their neighbors.
Just about every major religion, and many relevant philosophical schools of thought support killing under certain circumstances. Also once again violence does not have to mean killing.
Another issue is that even if every major religion or relevant philosophy was against killing, or even against all violence, that wouldn't mean that all people where against killing or violence. If violence is considered wrong under all circumstances, and that idea of right and wrong becomes the basis for society than you can't defend yourself, or your neighbor, or have police defend you or arrest people. You get a situation where the sociopath takes what he wants, and the intelligent ambitious sociopath makes himself king.
Tim |
