Murder is ALWAYS WRONG
Jul. 26th, 2022 08:00 amEven monsters need rights. Rights have to be respected for everyone, or they're good for no-one. I'm not kidding. If we don't respect rights for even the worst sorts of criminals, then they're not rights, they're privileges; and privileges can be taken away. Not respecting everyone's rights is how we get so many innocent people being executed for crimes they're later found to have not done. To protect the rights of everyone, there can be no crime so heinous that it causes us to ignore their human rights. Not even serial killers, pedophiles, child abusers, or child murderers, as lowly and vile as we may think them to be.
I keep seeing people who claim to not support the death penalty, then turning around and praising people who murder pedophiles or other child abusers in revenge. Self-defense is one thing -- if your only way out of a situation truly is k1lling someone, then so be it. But people who find out their kid has been molested and then go murder the suspect are morally in the wrong, as that is the very definition of premeditated murder. (INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY IN A COURT OF LAW. Emphasis on the word INNOCENT.)
They are worse than cops who gun people down for no reason, because at least the cops -- as flawed as they may be -- have at least the semblance of trying to have a search for the truth on their side. And the whole reason the cops have the problems they have is that deep down, they have a fundamental lack of respect for the human rights of large percentages of the population. The people who say "So-and-so deserved to die because they murdered a child" are as morally wrong as those that excuse the murder of black people because "they had a criminal record." THERE IS *NO* EXCUSE FOR MURDER. EVER. Not for random citizens, not for the state, and not for the state's lapdogs. It DOES. NOT. MATTER. your reasons, MURDER IS *ALWAYS* WRONG.
So yes, if we ignore human rights for anyone -- ANYONE AT ALL -- then we might as well not have rights at all, because if they're not for everyone, they're not rights... they're privileges. And privileges can be taken away.
I keep seeing people who claim to not support the death penalty, then turning around and praising people who murder pedophiles or other child abusers in revenge. Self-defense is one thing -- if your only way out of a situation truly is k1lling someone, then so be it. But people who find out their kid has been molested and then go murder the suspect are morally in the wrong, as that is the very definition of premeditated murder. (INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY IN A COURT OF LAW. Emphasis on the word INNOCENT.)
They are worse than cops who gun people down for no reason, because at least the cops -- as flawed as they may be -- have at least the semblance of trying to have a search for the truth on their side. And the whole reason the cops have the problems they have is that deep down, they have a fundamental lack of respect for the human rights of large percentages of the population. The people who say "So-and-so deserved to die because they murdered a child" are as morally wrong as those that excuse the murder of black people because "they had a criminal record." THERE IS *NO* EXCUSE FOR MURDER. EVER. Not for random citizens, not for the state, and not for the state's lapdogs. It DOES. NOT. MATTER. your reasons, MURDER IS *ALWAYS* WRONG.
So yes, if we ignore human rights for anyone -- ANYONE AT ALL -- then we might as well not have rights at all, because if they're not for everyone, they're not rights... they're privileges. And privileges can be taken away.