{"id":35189,"date":"2012-05-21T00:03:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T07:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=35189"},"modified":"2014-12-30T17:14:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T00:14:06","slug":"oh-sure-its-immoral-according-to-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2012\/05\/oh-sure-its-immoral-according-to-some.html","title":{"rendered":"Oh sure it’s “immoral” according to some"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u2026but there are a lot of questions and definitions that need to be clarified before we just condemn it outright. <\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What do we mean by \u201ckill\u201d for instance? It\u2019s sooo complicated that I don\u2019t even know if we can define it? Is it really \u201ckilling\u201d if the poor are a threat to peaceful and decent law-abiding citizens? Isn\u2019t it self defense to kill these sources of Terror? And isn\u2019t killing in self-defense just? And even if some Pharisees are going to get all self-righteous when brave Americans are dying at the hands of poor people, isn\u2019t it a fact that killing the poor *works*? Well, excuse me for living, but I\u2019m not going to split hairs about \u201cmurder\u201d in some abstract theologian\u2019s Ivory Tower when a poor person might possibly be thinking of doing something bad in several years. I say kill the poor *now* before they commit the crime I am fearful about. The fears of decent people like me are sufficient grounds for killing strangers on the off chance it will keep me safe. It\u2019s not murder. 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