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Post by lins on May 2, 2015 13:09:20 GMT
While responding with Hansoo's thread about Playing God by creating a life, I had new idea. Can we play god by ENDING someone's life? For example, in Frankenstein, the monster kills William in order to revenge. Does he have right to kill someone? Was it necessary for revenge?
Moreover, we can relate this to our real lives. Is capital punishment acceptable? Can we end someone's life based on their crime? Of course people should be punished if they commit some crimes. However, do we have right, as human beings, to end their lives? Isn't that God's job? I think most of us agreed that creating life from inanimate beings is God's job. But how about the opposite?
I think we have no right to kill someone, whatever they did in the past. We no nothing about their lives, how they felt and more. We can never fully understand their lives. Also we, even the judges, have no right to decide on one's life because that person didn't exactly do harm to us. What do you guys think?
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Post by agneslianaputri on May 3, 2015 13:27:56 GMT
I agree with you Lin! I think capital punishment only brings out a culture of death, violence and revenge. If killing is a crime, how can we remove that crime from the society by committing the same crime again.
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Post by estherchoi on May 3, 2015 14:03:03 GMT
Wow now that I think about it, I think I agree with you Lin.. Whenever we had the question about death penalty, I always agreed because there needs to be a punishment for people who committed crime. However, now I think that we don't have any rights to do so since we are the same human kind. I think we should not have the right to decide someone's life or death just because we didn't commit the crime. However, I do think we need some sort of boundary? limit? to stop people from committing the crime... but I don't know how.... hmmm..
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Post by sergeyfen on May 3, 2015 14:50:25 GMT
I don't agree with a right to end someone's life. It is wrong in a way that we don't know person's story of why he committed what he had committed. But looking from other point of view i don't see much wrong with ending someone's life. In action, many police officers or other organisation kill criminals just because they have no other way but to do their job and it's, to protect the lives of innocents. Personally, i think it's up to person's morality to decide whether killing someone is bad or good, we all think differently and we all have different view on ending someone's life.
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Post by chrishong on May 3, 2015 15:25:12 GMT
I agree with you all that a person cannot decide to kill another person. We are all born as equally sinful people and are capable of commiting similar crimes. Therefore, we don't deserve the right to take away each other's life.
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Post by irin on May 3, 2015 17:23:14 GMT
I agree people cannot decide to kill other person because all the people born with sins so people don't have deserve to take each others life.
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Post by jmoon234 on May 4, 2015 0:52:35 GMT
I agree to that we don't have the rights to kill people for death penalty because allowing the one to live who caused the crimes can be a good reminder and also allow them to think back what they have did in the past.
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Post by dhiya on May 4, 2015 3:51:37 GMT
I don't think we have the right to kill someone, therefore I'm against death penalty. I think people can change, and what if there was some mistakes in the court? What if an innocent man has to die because of this? However, there are some culture/religious belief that support death penalty, like Islam, for example. So as a follower of Islam, I'm still not sure..
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Post by saimoon1 on May 4, 2015 5:30:46 GMT
I don't think that capital punishment can be supported. Killing a person who killed another person does not sound right. Maybe detaining them for their entire life is enough of a punishment for the murderer to think about their mistake.
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Post by lukejoo on May 5, 2015 11:29:43 GMT
I believe that we never have the right to kill another human being. However, I have to admit that there are situations when killing another person is inevitable. The most basic example would be war. In war, there are two sides who fight for opposite causes, goals that goes exactly against the other side's goals. Thus, we are forced to crush the other side in order to obtain what we want. Either way, each side would believe that they are the good guys while the others are the bad guys when in reality, no one is right. We are simply thrown into the situation of kill-or-be-killed.
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Post by crystalcao on May 5, 2015 15:56:45 GMT
We can't kill anyone for any reason. I really believe an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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Post by nerdira on May 6, 2015 13:00:19 GMT
I don't think murder is acceptable of course lin duhhhhh. However, I also believe that taking that person's life in exchange through capital punishment is also not acceptable. Its not anyone's right to play the executioner. Also, death row is actually much more expensive than keeping a person in jail for the rest of their life.
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Post by hansoo on May 7, 2015 15:55:24 GMT
Killing does play god. No one has right to end one's life other than god.
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Post by leeeeena on May 7, 2015 16:01:17 GMT
I think one has no right to kill nor start one's life. Once we start doing so, we are playing god.
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Post by justink on May 9, 2015 14:37:30 GMT
… i think this topic is interesting however is heavily religion based. From an atheist's standpoint, I don't see any problem in ending one's life as long as it prevents the death of others. Though creating life through other demeanor other than birth would be awkward and rather related to mad scientists. Nevertheless, i don't think that capital punishment is a horrendous act as long as it is a decision that make a better good. Letting a serial killer lingering in the society isn't necessarily the best choice. What i mean is that, people on death sentence should have appropriate reasons. It has nothing to do with playing god or not. It is rather a moral and communal decision.
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