Is taking another human's life ever justified?
958116
Yes definetly.\n\nI pose to you a question, you come home your mum and dad and all your siblings are dead, you see a man in the hall holding a gun up at you with their blood on his hands you have a gun do you draw it and pull the trigger?\n\nAlso another question\nA child sex offender is realeased from jail and re offends, then goes to jail again released with the same result, do you use capital punishment to protect all his future victims?\n\nI am pro capital punishment in out and out clear cut guilty cases (violent/ sex crimes) , as far as i am concerned the fmaily of the victim should have the choice if they want the offender to die, because the offenders death will only bring closure to those he/ she has effected.
1044548
I fully beleive that if someone wants to die, they should be able to do it. The governemnt's not going to stop me if I really want to commit suicide. Pain should be able to be stopped -- one way or another. Death is as good a way as others. \nBy the way...I really wish doctors actually did no harm.
1008596
Yes it is allowed, and I am one.  Saving the life of another is a very high honor in Islam.  Life is sacred.  I am a muslim woman and I signed the back of my Driver's License that states that I wish to donate my organs.  God willing, I can save somebody in death with my heart, brain, or other items.  I don't think my lungs would be too good, though, since I have chronic bronchitis and have had pneumonia.
912869
no is it important to kill a human?
9683
Some people are dying to try it.  There are several problems.  It should be administered by someone who is medically qualified but doctors take an oath to not harm their patients.  Also, after the fact can it be proved that someone underwent euthanasia voluntarily without duress?  Will some use it because they are not being treated effectively for pain?  Plus there are many purely moral issues regarding the value of human life.  Could a vile government extend the practice to involuntary euthanasia, as did nazi Germany, to eliminate "undesirables?"  The matter is rather complicated and society had best proceed with caution - while respecting free choice of those who hold their own personal beliefs.
899454
To answer your question and to refute the genius who compared captial punishment to abortion:\n\nThe fact is, yes, there have been far too many instances where people have been put to death then later found innocent.  Our judicial system needs to put policies in place that will prevent this from EVER happening.  But generally, if a person, without a doubt, has been convicted of a malicious crime, they should be put to death.  How sane is it to allow someone who raped, tortured and killed a young girl to sit in a jail cell and live off taxpayer money?  If that individual feels someone INNOCENT deserves to die, why should they be allowed to live?  Again, I believe there should be WITHOUT a doubt concrete evidence against a person who is put on death row.\nAnd concerning abortion...unborn babies have not committed heinous crimes.
794993
Whether a person chooses to take their life prematurely or not, is their decision.  As a nurse for 35 years, I have seen many people die a slow painful death, so I can understand the desire to end ones suffering.  I couldn't  do it though, because I would feel there must be a reason for me to stay on this earth a little longer.  To shorten my life,  I would become  accountable to a higher power.  The one who gave me life in the first place and really is the only one who has the right to take mine away.
516696
well, i don't like to think that we have the right to take a human life.....on the other hand, my cousin was murdered and her assassin got 7 years.  He should have died.  After all he took her life.  Our prison system does not rehabilitate nor can it simply because the people inside are sociopaths.  so yeah, I'm for the death penalty and lethal injection is probably the least messy choice.
132511
I don't think it is right the ends someone's life before it's thier time. Life should be respected at all levels. Everyone should respect life from the unborn to natural death. Abortion is wrong and so it the Death Penality.
124360
Execution certainly isn't unusual--it has been commonly done since the beginning of written history.  Cruel?  Well, there is the real question.  Dying painfully would be cruel.  The debate here is whether dying peacefully is cruel, justified, etc.  Some are worried about people being executed, then being found not guilty after the execution is completed.
950563
Laying ones life down for another, no matter who the other person might be.
80282
Nope!!!! Nobody has a right to take a life...\nThat includes the person himself.
234331
I agree with having a death penalty, if we could ensure guilt. until then, the only justification is to "save money" that would be spent imprisoning someone for life. I think that argument is a little too NAZI. killing people because they cost society money just isn't a healthy road to travel.
409425
i think they should kill the one guy, so three men can live. i doubt that they would get in trouble for murder, because they could all explain the story and how it was not optional-- either he dies or they all die. with a good lawyer in court, i think it would work anyway. \ni think that three lives are more valuable to save than none, and if they all get suffocated and the large man dies, no one is saved anyway.
348626
i would want to, b/c of the fact that it is a noble gesture as Jesus had sacraficed his life for us...but if i were to be honest i prob. wouldn't do that. in my heart i would want to say yes i would, but we all have a will to live. if you are a truly loving and noble person you would most likely sacrafice yourself, but unfortunately not many are that willing to risk their life (unless of course the person they're trying to save is part of their family).
852944
I think you're on the right track here in pointing out the hypocrisy of the "personal freedom" argument that baby killers use. How is killing an unborn child in support of the CHILD'S freedom? They always come back with "but it's not a child, it's a clump of cells". That's all they have, but I think they do know better in their hearts. They're just in denial, which is really sad.\n\nBTW, it is also not hypocrisy to be anti-abortion but pro-death penalty. Those folks who believe this are making the distinction between the taking of innocent life vs. taking the life of a person guilty of the heinous crime of murder. However, I personally do not support the death penalty either in ANY case. All people were put on earth for a reason and it should be left up to God to work his magic in their lives and help them come to see why their actions were wrong and change their hearts. They should be put in jail for life simply to protect the public from them in case they never change.\n\nEuthanasia is wrong as well. Those who are not inside a person's head to know for sure what they are thinking and what their wishes are should not make a decision to actively or passively take a person's life. Who are they to make the judgment that this person's life is no longer worth living?\n\nAnyway, I like that you are standing up for what you believe in. It's important that we all do that, no matter how persecuted we are by those who would silence us.
1117225
I don't think the word "strangers" should even come into play.  They're fellow human beings, with a right to live.\n\nI can't honestly say that throwing myself on it would be the first option to even come to mind, but for the sake of the question, we'll say it does.\n\nYes, I would throw myself on it in an attempt to save as many people in the room as possible.  Yes, some of them will likely be hurt anyway, and some of them will likely end up with bits of me all over them.  But they'd probably be alive, and that would be the major objective.\n\nLike Spock said, "the good of the one or the good of the many?"\n\nWhy should all of us die when there is a possibility that only one would have to?  There is no reason (or time, in that case, to think of one) why that one shouldn't be me.\n\nThere would be no glory in it, at least that the dead one would be around to revel in, so it comes down to being a moral decision.  \n\nDo you value human life?\n\nI do.