• proudblond@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I don’t want someone to kill me; therefore I believe it is also not okay for me to kill someone else. It’s just the golden rule. I am not a student of ethics or philosophy but it seems pretty straightforward to me.

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      4 months ago

      In the event that I were guilty of causing great harm to innocent people, then I should be killed. Not in revenge, but as a matter of course, given that my life would no longer be worth living.

      This is the golden rule in action, which is about how you would want to be treated in similar circumstances.