{"id":25587,"date":"2015-12-13T09:39:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T16:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/?p=25587"},"modified":"2015-12-13T09:41:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T16:41:04","slug":"lethal-self-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/lethal-self-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Lethal Self Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.titanians.org\/lethal-self-defense\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/PreventViolence.png\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/>Titanians.org<\/a> | There are many who believe that killing another human being is always unethical \u2013 an evil deed, regardless of the circumstances and motivation behind the act. Because of this, many victims of violence and tyranny have died needlessly \u2013 thinking they were acting ethically by refraining from defending themselves. It\u2019s time to set the record straight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Analysis<\/strong><br \/>\nTo acquire a profound understanding of the issues involved in this matter, we must start with the definition of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.titanians.org\/the-ethics\/\" target=\"_blank\">valid ethic<\/a>. Here is an example:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAn act is ethical if it increases the creativity of at least one person, including the person acting, without limiting or diminishing the creativity of anyone.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From this definition, we can derive the following principles by pure logic:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Every ethically non-trivial act falls on an ethical continuum, in accordance with the degree to which the act increases creativity.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Murder is unethical (as is obvious), because, by definition, it reduces the creativity of the person being murdered.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It is unethical to permit an unethical act if one can effectively forbid or prevent it.<\/p>\n<p>This raises the question, \u201cIs killing in self defense properly construed as \u2018murder\u2019?\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.titanians.org\/lethal-self-defense\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read Entire Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Cronus de Gaia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Titanians.org | There are many who believe that killing another human being is always unethical \u2013 an evil deed, regardless of the circumstances and motivation behind the act. Because of this, many victims of violence and tyranny have died needlessly \u2013 thinking they were acting ethically by refraining from defending themselves. It\u2019s time to set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[368,318,407],"class_list":["post-25587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-ethics","tag-murder","tag-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}