Are We Evil?

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What if it was a planet full of your people, whom were under-producing and whom were drains on your social security system? Would aliviating a tax burden via planetary napalm be considered evil?

Is killing your friend different from killing your enemy? In the end, they are both still dead.

How about if it was a fully developed porportions homeworld, but the whole place was like Los Angeles. Would you be heralded as a hero?

What if you shot down an unarmed ship? Is killing five people or one hundered people different from butchering fifty billion? Why? Do all their souls cry out against you, or do you fear some sort of karmic reprisal from the universe?

What if you killed a family of mice whom were trying to eek out their survival in your home, after you displaced their natural habitat? What about ants? bacteria in the kitchen sink? How far down the food chain do you have to go to kill, before you feel okay about it?

Who judges our actions, and on what basis? Are there some sort of universal laws that say we should all hold hands and sing? Are other life forms, like lower "animals" held to these laws? How about plants? What about some hypothetical alien culture? What seperates a green skinned guy on another planet, from a brown skinned guy on another continent? what seperates him from the guy next to you?

Wars are fought over land and property. All of them. If wars were not to be fought, and we were all to hold hands and sing, we would have had to stop expanding as a culture, long before the agricultural revolution. Do we villify progress to prevent killing, or justify murder to further our civilization?