http://nosleepinventor.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] nosleepinventor.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] capeandcowl 2010-11-06 08:15 pm (UTC)

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You can't just say that a person who kills is a monster, because if someone's attacking you then maybe you should kill them, and sometimes police officers have to kill people too. And the police aren't monsters. And then there's the debate over the death penalty, or abortion and if those are murder or not and if the people who carry them out are monsters, but if that's the case then there are a lot of monsters.

And people can be monsters while they think they're doing good. I mean, Hitler thought he was doing a good thing, and he killed millions of people. So it can't just be about intentions because then Hitler wouldn't be thought of as a monster but a policeman who had to kill someone in the line of duty and knew it was wrong to do would be a monster. And that's just wrong.

Maybe it has something to do with hate? Hitler hated a lot of people and that's why he killed them. He thought it was the right thing, but he was still killing millions of people. If you hate, you go bad because you don't think of people as people, and when you don't think of people as people you can do horrible things without realizing that they're wrong or even caring.

So that's what I think. If you do things without caring that you're hurting people and just think about yourself then you're a monster.

Does that help?

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