NSFW: Is this girl guilty of murder or justifiable homicide?
A girl is being abused. She has been raped, sexually abused in other ways, and she feels that eventually her father will kill her because he tells her so. She waits for him to sleep, gets the gun, and shoots her father. What is she guilty of morally? Im talking morally, not legally.
Justifiable homicide.
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Murder.
Side Score: 4
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While I do believe she could have just left rather than shoot him, I do see it as self-defense if he's already hurt her and has made threats to continue doing so to the point of murdering her. There would be other ways to deal with the situation though, better ways. Side: Justifiable homicide.
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Even to save your own life? So if some one was going to kill you and you could stop them by killing them you would choose to let them kill you? Any one who tortures a young girl and threatens to kill her deserves to die and is no loss to society any way. If some one is going to kill you, you have every right to defend yourself even if it means killing them. Side: Justifiable homicide.
No one should have the right to decide who lives and who dies. Certainly not based on what value they have in society. No one has the right to put a value on another persons life. If it was a choice against certain death or killing the person trying to kill you then yes murder would be morally justifiable but that situation isn't realistic. Killing someone who is trying to rape you is not morally justifiable. Side: Murder.
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