Originally Posted by
ButterflyWoman
Agreed. You can allow yourself to be killed, or to simply not fight back and let what happens, happen. I'm not saying people SHOULD do that, but you are never forced to kill. You can refuse to participate.
However, and I know I'll get howls of disapproval at this, I don't see death as that horrible a thing. No, I don't approve of murder, because it has a ripple effect in society as a whole, and causes a great deal of pain and misery that the world could do without. But death comes to EVERYONE, sometimes before you're even born, sometimes after a long and horribly painful life that you would have rather not lived at all, and every variation in between. Death is just part of life, part of the cycle. The preoccupation with death seems somewhat ridiculous to me, and I believe it's rooted in most people's own fear of death (very few people have truly overcome that fear, and it drives an awful lot people, sometimes in strange directions).
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