Jesus answered him, “Friend, do what you have come for.” Then stepping forward they laid hands on Jesus and arrested him. And behold, one of those who accompanied Jesus put his hand to his sword, drew it, and struck the high priest’s servant, cutting off his ear. Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its sheath, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.
Matthew 26:50-52
About 35 years ago or so I was approached by a young lady I knew who wanted some advice. She was approached by a fellow I knew and was interested but wanted my opinion on jumping in so to speak.
Now there was a time when the obvious answer: “He’s married!” would have ended the conversation before it began but as this fact had not dissuaded her I decided arguing on moral grounds would fail so instead I made a point concerning self interest noting that if he was willing to abandon a wife and kids to score with you how much faster would he drop you for the next willing woman without those incentives to stay faithful.
And that brings us to the question at hand.
Not too long ago it would have been a given that gunning down a person in cold blood is wrong and that would be the end of the conversation but apparently for the modern college student who is being indoctrinated by leftist Marxist professors who have abandoned the idea that life is sacred such an argument isn’t going to work so let me make one based on simple self interest to those who are cheering over this murder:
1st of all if you are a college student doing this you can kiss goodbye any prospect of getting hired by any significant company for any responsible position but given that many of the folks leading the cheers are already from families with dough that might not be enough of an incentive so let’s get down to the nitty gritty.
If you’re argument is that the “harm” or “potential” harm that a CEO is doing to you or others in a justification for murder then by that same argument a CEO can look at every single person endorsing such murder, every college professor defending such murder and honestly conclude that such people present a clear and present danger to their lives and the lives of their families and thus have a legitimate justification to kill any such person based on self defense.
Furthermore given that a CEO is likely to have a pretty fair sized checkbook it would not take a lot of effort for such a person to obtain a person willing and able to carry out such an assignment who could act discretely without implicating his employer and unlike a CEO who can afford protection it’s very likely that many of these fools cheering this murder on has no such protection and thus could not only be eliminated but could be taken care of in such a way to make that vulnerability clear to all those others cheering over blood.
Now all of this would be so much easier if we returned to the idea that humans are made in the image of God and murdering people who are not an immediate threat to you and yours is an evil thing to do, but since a segment of the population has abandoned this idea let just point out that it’s rather rash to provide an incentive to a person with power and money to kill you or to encourage a group of people with power, money and connection to do so, but hey that’s just me, what do I know compared to college kids being egged on by his professors on this kids of stuff, but hey that’s just me.
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