I don’t believe that you are picking up what I’m putting down. Why shouldn’t you die instead? Why do we consider it understandable to defend yourself to the death? Obviously it is because we value lives more than whatever the other person wants that drives them to attack someone, but there isn’t a strict reason for that beyond social acceptance. We could just as easy decide, as a society, that those who can’t defend themselves should be culled. Or that murder is so incomprehensible that there is no reason to consider it.
Murder and death are obviously extreme examples, but you work that idea forward to charity, politeness, and social contract to yield to a government authority.
I don’t believe that you are picking up what I’m putting down. Why shouldn’t you die instead? Why do we consider it understandable to defend yourself to the death? Obviously it is because we value lives more than whatever the other person wants that drives them to attack someone, but there isn’t a strict reason for that beyond social acceptance. We could just as easy decide, as a society, that those who can’t defend themselves should be culled. Or that murder is so incomprehensible that there is no reason to consider it.
Murder and death are obviously extreme examples, but you work that idea forward to charity, politeness, and social contract to yield to a government authority.