If This One Act Would Stop The War Would You Do It?

Published on April 16, 2006 By Moderateman In Ethics

This is a real simple question. Would you cut Usama Bin Laden's Throat deep enough to kill him?

There would be NO legal consequences for doing this.

You would be just an anonymous person hidden behind a mask so no one would ever know it was you that did it.

Now remember taking his life would save the lives of thousands!!

This is an ethical question and a moral value judgement only you can decide.

Comments (Page 2)

Moderateman

on Apr 17, 2006

Reply By: Gideon MacLeishPosted: Monday, April 17, 2006I couldn't do it, mod. It's a tough, tough question, but I couldn't do it.

glad you answered from your heart with no rhetoric.

Tova7

on Apr 18, 2006

I don't honestly know.

I don't think I could do it in such a clinical fashion. If I were in the field looking for him, came across him, and we struggled, then yeah. But I would never do it behind a mask.

If I ever kill someone I want to see their eyes, and I want them to see mine.

A mask doesn't hide anything but your shame imo.

island_gurl12

on Apr 18, 2006

Slit his throat? probably not, i wouldnt want to touch him! I'd rather shoot the bastard

Moderateman

on Apr 18, 2006

#17 by Tova7
Tuesday, April 18, 2006

don't honestly know.

I don't think I could do it in such a clinical fashion. If I were in the field looking for him, came across him, and we struggled, then yeah. But I would never do it behind a mask.

If I ever kill someone I want to see their eyes, and I want them to see mine.

A mask doesn't hide anything but your shame imo.

I was trying to make this as safe as possible so I could get answers based on ethics and morals.

Moderateman

on Apr 18, 2006

#18 by island_gurl12
Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Slit his throat? probably not, i wouldnt want to touch him! I'd rather shoot the bastard

to quick and not personal enough for me,

cmorton

on Apr 19, 2006

I often ask myself if I could kill, but when you get right down to it......I think I would have a problem with the memory of the killing etched in my mind forever. Then guilt and morality would set in. I have never hated someone that much in order to take their life from them.
I think I would be afraid of myself!

I think I rationalized the the full extent of taking someone's life....even Osama's! As much asI hate what he has done, I am no better than he is if I were to take his. Yes he is responsible for killing thousands of people, but just think, .......imagine the guilt of taking one life compared to the thousands of lives that he has to answer for. Death is so final and complete. To end someone's life at the sake of my hands I couldn't do it.

Moderateman

on Apr 19, 2006

Reply By: cmortonPosted: Wednesday, April 19, 2006I often ask myself if I could kill, but when you get right down to it......I think I would have a problem with the memory of the killing etched in my mind forever. Then guilt and morality would set in. I have never hated someone that much in order to take their life from them.I think I would be afraid of myself!I think I rationalized the the full extent of taking someone's life....even Osama's! As much asI hate what he has done, I am no better than he is if I were to take his. Yes he is responsible for killing thousands of people, but just think, .......imagine the guilt of taking one life compared to the thousands of lives that he has to answer for. Death is so final and complete. To end someone's life at the sake of my hands I couldn't do it.

another heart felt answer! good for you.

spindoctor

on Apr 19, 2006

You sound so tough moderateman, could you really just cut someones throat and if so, the police need to be watching you as you are a time bomb ready to explode.

sushiK

on Apr 19, 2006

If Osama was to stand trial, be convicted, be sentenced to death by a court of law, if I was then asked to do the part of the executioner then yes I could perfom the act of killing.

What you talk of is murder which never solves anything.

Moderateman

on Apr 19, 2006

#24 by sushiK
Wednesday, April 19, 2006

If Osama was to stand trial, be convicted, be sentenced to death by a court of law, if I was then asked to do the part of the executioner then yes I could perform the act of killing.

What you talk of is murder which never solves anything.

hence this being in the ethics part of philosophy

island_gurl12

on Apr 19, 2006

to quick and not personal enough for me,

Okay let me develop for you. For all the death he is responsible for I think I would do it. He's brainwashed a whole population to terrorize another one because they dont think alike. He's a new Hitler: he's after a genocide of the western people and culture. If it would stop the ongoing massacre I think I would do it. I'd probably feel guilty after. But if I had the occasion of doing it and didnt (still assuming his death would definetely end the war) and other innocent lives were lost I'd feel even worse.

PS: I wouldnt want to touch him because he disgusts me, that's why i'd rather shoot him!

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