Is Killing Human Beings Wrong/Immoral?

[Another God]

Originally posted by FZ+
Why do we all want to live?

Evolution probably, but there doesn't really need to be an answer for this. It's like asking what happiness is. We don't really need an answer, you just need to ask people "Are you happy?" And they know what you mean.

Why do we want to live? I dunno, but I sure as hell know that I want to.

Heh. I might say this in some systems the above is suppressed, and killing is made "right". The armed forces are an example. In that case, we find not following orders (The goodness of the opponent does really come into it, IMHO.) to be more subversive to our prime desires, to the mission, or the team, or whatever.

I think that this is because killing others isn't as prime a directive. It is more accurately a concession in light of the prime directives. They being "I don't want to die" and "I want to have friends/family/others around me with whom to share my life."

In a military outfit, you have those people around you, and they are directly concerned with keeping you alive. Of course you will work together to kill other people who are not 'Us': They may try to kill you and your incredibly close friends.