I decline to accept any rational justification of murder.
It is imo an abuse of logic and our rational capacity to attempt it.
Basically, I claim: Rational Justification of Murder == Auschwitz
It is equal to saying that people with property X are not "worthy of existence".
That's putting a raster of human design upon the most basic foundation of reality itself, existence.
Standing at a stage of knowledge where we have more fog of war on our map of nature than explored territory, claiming to know what is worthy of existence and what not is a simple violation of rationality, arbitrariness motivated by emotional shortcomings.
It leads to perversion, Auschwitz.
There is no rational approach to existence. There is no objective frame work to apply rational thought in. Worthiness of existence is a struggle in empty space, hybris.
In a complex system of numerous interdependencies, that step is imo the one little step too far. It starts a chain reaction. What about the people who who played a role in forming that property X, kill them too?
It doesn't stop anywhere, because society is a complex system, where every single element can be connected, through detour, to every other element.
By making that one property X the deathmark, you acknowledge that your entire society is basically not "worthy of existence", including you yourself. Which leads to a paradox, since if you are not worthy of existence, how can you determine who is?
You arrive at Auschwitz, perversion of thought, logic and science.
Does that make murder inexcusable?
No, because humans are also animals. If physical danger passes a limit, our instinct of survival takes over. I can live with that, and there's no point of punishing someone for what he
is, an animal.
But that does not qualify, imo, as a
rational justification.
And it does not make murder "right". Even if we kill someone in self-defense, the killing was still, rationally, the
wrong course of action, as the slaughtered person did not
deserve to die.
And for the sake of triteness, I would like to end this post with a well-known quote by Gandalf:
Quote:
Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends.