An Argument to Legalize Murder
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:46 am
Let me preface my position with a wonderful 8 part video series on YouTube that touches on math and morality. In summary to the point of my proposal, this series shows that population will be reduced, either by conscious choice or by nature's intervention - and that nature is already intervening.
We already have an overpopulation problem, although we are not feeling a bad sting from it yet. It is also obvious that a segment of the population that tends to produce offspring that become more of a drain on society than offspring who become big positive contributors are producing more offspring than other segments of society. It is also noteworthy that the greats of society do come from all levels of society, and many types of maladaptive personalities come just as easily from "upper crust" society as any other segment. As someone who went to various private schools as well as a couple of public schools, I can attest that the "spoiled brat" personality is predominant amongst offspring of "upper crust" adults and their sense of entitlement seems stronger to me than the sense of entitlement amongst the poor - who are most often accused of this trait. Therefore, the elimination or even targeting of one class of society is not the path to keeping the best while eliminating the worst in whatever form of population control that occurs.
I have noted that justice does not always prevail in the court system, and in fact, it could be debated that currently justice fails more often than it succeeds. I have noted that American society has produced quite a few intolerable attitudes. I have noted that I am not the only person, by far, who believes that something very different needs to be done to improve society.
Legalizing murder committed by people age 27 or older might be the best solution. True, some people's feelings of injustice might be exaggerated, leading to unjust killing - but if murder were legal, such people themselves would soon be dead. Reasonable people would not jump to the murder solution quickly, knowing that they would in turn be looked at as possible targets. Some people would just go on killing sprees, figuring they wouldn't get caught (not that this doesn't happen already anyway) but with everyone armed at all times, their victims would have a better chance at survival than currently.
I also suspect that if murder were legalized, and everyone were armed at all times, this would suddenly become a MUCH more polite society.
I selected the age of 27 because the human brain does not finish developing until the age of 25, but I'm arbitrarily adding 2 years to allow for slower developing brains. Murder should be strongly weighed with a clear and developed mind before completed, and underdeveloped brains may more quickly jump to the murder conclusion. Adults with less than rational minds could also jump to the murder conclusion too quickly, but such adults would soon be culled from the population. A youth with a developing mind would have more of a chance of erring due to underdevelopment rather than due to a permanent fault in development, and I want to give children a chance to develop before subjecting themselves to fatal retaliation. Children can not consider consequences as completely as an adult mind can.
(as a side note, my internet access is still limited so I may be slow to respond, but I will come back to this thread)
We already have an overpopulation problem, although we are not feeling a bad sting from it yet. It is also obvious that a segment of the population that tends to produce offspring that become more of a drain on society than offspring who become big positive contributors are producing more offspring than other segments of society. It is also noteworthy that the greats of society do come from all levels of society, and many types of maladaptive personalities come just as easily from "upper crust" society as any other segment. As someone who went to various private schools as well as a couple of public schools, I can attest that the "spoiled brat" personality is predominant amongst offspring of "upper crust" adults and their sense of entitlement seems stronger to me than the sense of entitlement amongst the poor - who are most often accused of this trait. Therefore, the elimination or even targeting of one class of society is not the path to keeping the best while eliminating the worst in whatever form of population control that occurs.
I have noted that justice does not always prevail in the court system, and in fact, it could be debated that currently justice fails more often than it succeeds. I have noted that American society has produced quite a few intolerable attitudes. I have noted that I am not the only person, by far, who believes that something very different needs to be done to improve society.
Legalizing murder committed by people age 27 or older might be the best solution. True, some people's feelings of injustice might be exaggerated, leading to unjust killing - but if murder were legal, such people themselves would soon be dead. Reasonable people would not jump to the murder solution quickly, knowing that they would in turn be looked at as possible targets. Some people would just go on killing sprees, figuring they wouldn't get caught (not that this doesn't happen already anyway) but with everyone armed at all times, their victims would have a better chance at survival than currently.
I also suspect that if murder were legalized, and everyone were armed at all times, this would suddenly become a MUCH more polite society.
I selected the age of 27 because the human brain does not finish developing until the age of 25, but I'm arbitrarily adding 2 years to allow for slower developing brains. Murder should be strongly weighed with a clear and developed mind before completed, and underdeveloped brains may more quickly jump to the murder conclusion. Adults with less than rational minds could also jump to the murder conclusion too quickly, but such adults would soon be culled from the population. A youth with a developing mind would have more of a chance of erring due to underdevelopment rather than due to a permanent fault in development, and I want to give children a chance to develop before subjecting themselves to fatal retaliation. Children can not consider consequences as completely as an adult mind can.
(as a side note, my internet access is still limited so I may be slow to respond, but I will come back to this thread)