Today I dropped History.
Today in English we continued talking about the true or false worksheet. A statement that brought up a lot of debating in our class was whether it is ever right to kill people. On one side of the arguement, our class debated that it can be okay to kill someone it is to save the lives of others. An example of this is if a terrorist is plotting to kill many other people it would be right to kill them because it would save many other lives. On the other side of the debate, our class argued that it is never right to kill a person becasue life is one of their natural rights and killing them would be taking away that natural right, which would always be unjust.
The debate on this question reminded me a lot of the debate we had in History the other day on the same question. A lot of the arguement was the same in both classes, but in History i heard an interesting point brought up from one of the groups. This point was that if someone was coming after you with a weapon plotting to murder you, would it be right to kill them purely for defending yourself? In this situation I would say that it would be more proper to take any alternative possible other than killing them in order to avoid making the wrong choice.
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