Tuesday, March 17, 2009
When You Have To Shoot First
I believe that the question that Watzman proposed is indeed an interesting one. He wonders if it is ok to kill someone. Is it your call to play God and decide who dies? His friend I believe was not completely justified in killing the wounded man, because he could have searched him to see if he had a deadly weapon concealed. However, I am not completely sure if I would act being in that situation because hopefully I will never be in that situation. Now in today's age we have become such a paranoid group of people that we let this flaw outcome us sometimes, and it makes us do terrible things. Like the cops killing the man in the subway. I understand that they were scared that he was possibly a suicide bomber, but shoot him point blank in the head, without asking him any questions at all that are just inexcusable. People, I feel, should only take a human life if they come after you first. You should never shoot first, because you could be taking an innocent life for no reason. Do you tell the London man's family that he was killed for the fact that he was wearing a jacket? Yeah I didn't think so.
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I agree with you when you say that "people...should only take a human life if they come after you first." In fact, in the United States’ court system, this is known as the “privilege of self-defense”. We are legally allowed to use deadly force to protect ourselves and others if we are being threatened with death or serious bodily harm and no lesser amount of force would suffice. However, like you said, to shoot someone point blank without a legitimate reason is simply inexcusable. Therefore, I agree with you in thinking that wearing a long jacket is not a justifiable basis for shooting and killing someone.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it is not ok to shoot someone because of what they are wearing, but that doesn't mean the police weren't justified. Even though it is disappointing that we live in a world where in order to protect the lives of many people are sometimes killed unjustly. This man however sealed his fate by not just wearing the same style of someone who is a suicide bomber, but jumping over the turnstile and running when the police told him to stop. Taking all of that into account you cant just say "Do you tell the London man's family that he was killed for the fact that he was wearing a jacket?" because he also disobeyed the law but jumping over the turnstile and not paying attention to the law enforcement officers.
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