Insignificance wrote:Socialist republic of Andrew wrote:Im not sure but i think if a man breaks into your house you are allowed to kill and or harm him to protect yourself, family, and property or at least in the US i think it is.
The word "defense" means exactly that. If all he is doing is stealing your TV and you kill him, are you saying you killed him because you were defending your TV? As I said in my previous post that for the life of me I cannot find, you can replace a TV. A human life, no matter what that human chooses to do with it, cannot be replaced. Once it's gone, it's gone.
EDIT: I amn't trying to justify people breaking in to your house to steal your stuff either. I am just pointing out the fact that items such as TVs and stereos can be replaced.
A few things. To start off, I would kill the intruder. Hands down. It's tantamount to a once in a life time opportunity.
Defense does not always have to be about personal defense. No one leaves their stuff unguarded; it has to be
defended. A thief is trying to steal your property, so defending it is only natural.
Violence is not immoral, despite how negative it seems. My reasoning is that, animals fight and act violent towards one another all the time, yet no one has the insanity to call them immoral. People act violent all the time because it is natural; they are naturally aggressive. The thing we have to watch out for is, are they being reasonably aggressive? Are they violent for the right reasons?
Next, when it is said that people are not replaceable: are you sure about that? I believe we all learn that people are reproducing everyday around the 7th grade, don't we? We are so good at replacing people that just a few months ago we now have 7,000,000,000 of them on the planet. Soon, and even at the present, the world is facing overpopulation. One might go so far as to say to kill a thief would be helping future generations...
And then, back to this topic, some personal effects are not immediately replaceable.
For example, a computer, or a laptop which holds a lifetime's worth of family pictures which will never be replicable once stolen.
Or the family heirlooms which looks valuable, yet holds special memories about deceased relatives?
Or the inscribed jewelry which was given by an old loved one which still has meaning to its owner?
In essence, my thesis is that while people can be replaced (easily, if you know what I mean), some items are too filled with memories and feelings that to let them slip away would be unbearable.
Arguements?