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Originally Posted by John21
I'm okay saying that 'gratuitous killing' or killing a person for no reason whatsoever has been universally wrong.
First, there is no such thing as gratuitous killing. If someone is killing they have a reason to do it. Greed, jealousy, entertainment, boredom, something. You disagree with their reason for doing it and call it gratuitous, but calling it gratuitous just means that you are saying your perspective of situation trumps the killers perspective of the situation -- that you are right and they are wrong in the analysis of the situation.
Second, nothing has been universally anything. But if it has, you are wrong, and it has been universally the other way. You are living in a time of little killing but this is a new development. Your country, I don't care where it is in the world, has not existed as long as the western roman empire did, and killing was rampant in that empire. Even the rich and famous were killed, all the time, and many of them only on suspicion without any evidence.
It is absurd to me to be born into a time and place and think that your way of doing things -- that is, the way things are done by everyone around you -- is the correct and ethical way of doing things, and then go on to say "thats the universal way things have always been done"