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When It Is Justifiable To Take The Life Of Another.

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By James Agbogun



FromĀ  manson to the D.C sniper and through all the assassinations, murders, executions-all over the World-to terminate at the recent fort hood attack; comes the question: "what is the exact action that justifies the need for one man to want to take the life of another?"

In Regions of the world where materials are scarce, the pace of armed robbery is usually at the peak. Because of the intersection of the lines of armed robbery and murder, there is also a rather corresponding increase in the degree of the latter. But murder could-in most of the time-come in this case as a result of resistance coming from the victims. Hence, there is a glowing reason in this case.

Another aspect that is more common in the developing countries that cannot be detached from competition is the battle for supremacy. this is evident in assassinations that come from a minute thing as occupation of a small trading space through an array of competition for scarce resources in an array of area of life to a more complex structure as the battle for political power. Here again, the reason is clear.

But when it begin to come from places where men live in high comfort, one wonders if there is an innate destructive tendency in certain men or simply the product of what the man had absorbed at a point in life. And that a man who had at the most time of his life experienced the hostile could raise arms against a system that guaranteed his present state of high comfort, sparks up a new debate on how to live in peace with fellow men.

Although Religion, Genetics and Environmental factors are very important determinants, Personal Humiliation and frustration are important aspects that the search light must point to. Frustration could cause a man to detonate an explosive as evident in the rampage in certain quarters because the shooter might have erred in the path of his life. And he fills irritated by other men who have lived a co-ordinated life. If his brain is too small to tolerate the reality, weapons could be resorted to.

What a certain individual might take as a personal humiliation might mean something else to another. Then one begin to question why one man could tolerate and another could kill for it. but what the killer must know is that in an attempt to take control of a situation he vaguely wished he could change, he resorted to take the laws into his hands roping himself into the hands of the supposed enemies. Now it is the larger enemies that would decides his fate.

The whole world tend to want to see religion as that perfect tool for peace so that when a man absorbed a passage in a religious book to the extent that he becomes violent, the rest of us soon come out to say that it was a radical Agenda. But that same Radical approach is a content of the larger book.

Even today Humanity can say thanks to religion for most of the high profile conflicts in the World.

But most part of those books contains guides to peace and harmony. But the bad guy is more interested in the bad part. We may not be able to blame him in the entirety because he could site a political reason that was not perpetuated by his recent victims. Even his attempt to do something could force the target to take more stringent approach.

The Hearts of those men are so hardened that when solutions are preferred to combat the reason for the aggression, the man may take another dimension where his new goal is to impose his values on others. For his thought is he could gain entrance to a higher system. Only for him to find himself in a state of emptiness. What if?

That you are unhappy with the state of your life does not delete the happiness of the other man. One may be unhappy today. But Happiness might come tomorrow. What if it comes when he is already on death role? Then the man should have controlled his immediate temper for his liberty to get his life back again. Or even get to a state of a better life.

One have searched through so many reasons for one man to want to take the life of another and arrived at "no justification." Even as we watched as men were led to be slaughtered, we are irritated by the ugly news and images. But what else can we do to check these men who could sniff out the life of innocent people without justifications? How can a man even think he could kill another? Relocate a man from the larger society to confinement called prison?

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Lady_E  says:
3 days ago

This is a very deep Hub.

It's never Justified to take someone's life. We don't own it.

Hmmm... I'm seeing the deep side of you.

Regards. E

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