I had a conversation with a family member yesterday, the same conversation over and over again, concerning justifying killing people with guns in self-defense.
At first I had trouble arguing against it…so I just stopped.
Eventually I realized specific errors in the “rationality” of this justification.
The defense of this self-defensiveness seems to be filled with errors in beliefs, values, actions and with fearful feelings demanding self-defense to protect one’s own life:
First, I sense there is huge error in my society concerning guns and killing humans accepted as normal and even a good thing to do in war and punishment.
Violence toward people who commit violence…why would people expect good to come out of violence for any reason?
Why does the world spend trillions on guns and weapons of mass destruction, rather than invest in creating tools that stop a human from approaching with violence intent into your home (like tasers for example) that don’t harm or create pain? Create tools and methods for limiting human behavior that is violent, versus harming/killing them for their violent intentions and actions.
Instead of a human history of creating many weapons for war and human destruction, why don’t we have a history of inventing tools to pause aggressive attack without pain, rather than maim and end life for humans on earth?
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