The Questions Thread

[arm-spin]

Rules of the thread:

1: You can ask any question that you want.
2: You can answer any question that you want.
3: You can not debate any one else's answer on this thread, you can only answer original questions. If you want to debate another poster please start a new thread.
5: The same question can be answered by as many posters as want to answer it.
6: To make it clear which question you are answering, please quote it in your posts.

7: No questions on creationism/evolution please!

Question # 1: When is it morally acceptable to kill another person? (thanks MRichardson for bringing up this one)

[coachsparky]

Question # 1: When is it morally acceptable to kill another person? (thanks MRichards for bringing up this one)

It is morally acceptable to kill another person if they are threatening your life.
It is morally acceptable to kill another person who is in extreme pain with a terminal illness and wishes not to continue to live but cannot terminate themselves.

It is morally acceptable to kill another person should they have left statement, that if they should become unaware and incapable of coherent thought be the ravages of a desease such as alzheimer they do not want to live that way.
It is morally acceptable to kill another person who is in a persistent and irreversable vegatative state.

[ban basketball]

Yes, it's a joke, but also a genuine question that I have always wondered (this thread is perfect for this question):

Can a thread stay on track, entirely following the instructions of the thread's author?

[ban basketball]

Question # 1: When is it morally acceptable to kill another person? (thanks MRichards for bringing up this one)

I'll bite on this one, but it's always been an easy one for me: The only morally acceptable act of killing another person is in self-defense.

[coachsparky]

I have a question:

Why do some people find it morally acceptable to do the right thing for their pets by putting them down when life is no longer tolerable but cannot find the same compassion for the fellow human beings in the same condition?

[Spider]

Question # 1: When is it morally acceptable to kill another person? (thanks MRichards for bringing up this one)

When he disagrees with me on an internet forum.

[Spider]

But seriously . . . I agree emphatically with Coachsparky. I think it is immoral to fail to end the suffering of a terminally ill patient, especially when he or she has expressed a desire that it be done.

[Spider]

Yes, it's a joke, but also a genuine question that I have always wondered (this thread is perfect for this question):

Can a thread stay on track, entirely following the instructions of the thread's author?

Which reminds me, I have to stop at the supermarket on the way home.

[quinn14]

Question # 1: When is it morally acceptable to kill another person? (thanks MRichards for bringing up this one)[/B]

It is morally acceptable when in self defense
It is morally acceptable when at war
It is morally acceptable to let a loved one die, but not assist it with pills or something. "Pulling the plug" is okay but suicide pills, not so much