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0 pointsafarrell9y ago0 comments

Both are true though. Many humans have butchered fellow humans. Hitler wasn't uniquely evil in human history, but a part of a long-running tradition

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dorfsmay9y ago· 3 in thread

I don't care how human anybody is, killing fellow humans, except to prevent the crime of others (police and military interventions in very specific cases) is not OK. That line cannot be crossed.

That includes death penalty and political revolutions.

afarrellOP9y ago

I never claimed it was okay. I just said it was human.

peteretep9y ago

    > is not OK

Why not? We kill plenty of other living things. Why not people?

dorfsmay9y ago

Because you have to draw the line somewhere.

Morale/ethics do change over time, but not killing people has been shown throughout history to be the bare minimum for a decent society, and an accepted standard today. We can discuss and expand on adding more species, kingdoms and domains, but humans are not up for discussion.

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