If it wasn't against modern law to kill you mother, would you also consider killing your mother ok? Just because of the 10 commandments, which you apparently consider just a morally meaningless tribal taboo--like that witch thing.
If it wasn't against modern law to kill you mother, would you also consider killing your mother ok? - Donh
Huh? Your asking me if everything that is not specifically outlawed is ok? Of course not. Conversely, just because killing witches here is against the law, doesn't mean the country isn't morally lapse in allowing witchcraft. But that doesn't mean you should take the law into your own hands.
Just because of the 10 commandments, which you apparently consider just a morally meaningless tribal taboo--like that witch thing. -DonH
I never said the 10 commandments were morally meaningless nor did I say the witch thing was morally meaningless. But "thou shalt not kill" is not an absolute. The Hebrew implies wrongful intent. And the scripture that verse is taken from clearly allows capital punishment, warfare and yes the killing of witches. Therefore there are situations where society can kill, because God gave dominion over the earth to man. And that includes social justice.
Whoa, there's a zinger that almost got past me. At other times and places, it was illegal for woman to vote, legal to own slaves, and legal to beat your own children to death up to age 21. Does that make any of these things automatically moral?