Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20130810030606/@comment-11188061-20140511163207

Arkan421 wrote: XDex wrote: See, the malice of the creature doesn't matter. They'll kill anybody they cross paths with, no different than some animals. By any comparison, there's no difference between releasing two creatures that are both going to try to kill someone.

What matters is the malice of the user. Not how the tool feels about it. It's like saying running someone over in a '95 Buick is less evil than doing the same with a 2014 Ford.

Very true, but there are also those who delude themselves that they are doing good by committing mass muder, or people who just say, "they were following orders", and had absolutely no moral responsibility even though they could have clearly objected to their superior's orders at any given point. Sorry to say, but some mass murders isn't necessarily bad (A police shot three dangerous bank robbers and killed all of them - it counts as a mass murder, so it's better to let them run scot free, and risk our own men getting killed in action in future heist?), and saying that a person could've objected to an order any time is an incredibly shortsighted opinion. You obey your boss' demands even though it might be unjust or unfair just to keep your job - it's the same situation here, just different responsibility.

Let's take the army for example. It is there to serve as a protection of the country - and a deterrent to invaders - but in essence, their job is to stop the enemy by all means necessary, and if that means kill them, you do it. That's a soldier's job just like any other.

To put it more bluntly, if you can't kill a person, you should never be a soldier in the first place. But we need soldiers, and we need people who's willing to do put their responsibility at the front even if it goes against their moral compass - as long as their morals do not shift towards a bad side over time. That means murder does have its place in the world, no matter how morally ambiguous the action was.