07-01-2015, 03:08 PM
(07-01-2015, 01:35 PM)bfine32 Wrote: If someone were trying to kill you or your family and killing them was the only way to stop them; would you do it?
Not an attempt at a "gotcha"; an honest question.
I wish I could answer it. I was raised Brethren which is the most lax on the issue of non-resistance among the Anabaptists, meaning they won't excommunicate you if you join the armed forces and self-defense is permissible. I've never been against self-defense and my pacifism has been more aimed at war and what not. I just don't know whether I could bring myself to end a life, even in that situation. You probably never know until/unless it happens.
