On 2/27/2003 12:14:51 PM, Mary Riggs wrote:
>Murder is the taking of a
>human life before the natural
>process of life can take
>place. Death is natural and
>murder is not.

This might seem illogical, but have you considered that murder might be the natural process in some cases? Why are we as humans relegated to living into old bodies, replete with disease and suffering when because of a societal value judgement that 'murder is wrong and unnatural'? All other forms of life on this planet prey upon the lower chains for sustenance, whereas we as humans mostly do it for other reasons like revenge and power motives. This alone in my mind, makes it different not wrong or bad.

If we said that death
>by murder was okay, then life
>on earth would be chaos.
>Mary Riggs
>riggsmary@earthlink.net

I personally think it's chaotic now, but that's how things should be. If all was orderly and precise, it would be dull. One again, i'm stating things from the viewpoint of someone who might believe that murder (whether assisted or not) is a natural way of population control. The appending morals are varied, of course.