Not even in extreme cases of self defense? Kill or be killed. Kill or let your entire family be killed. Will it be justified to kill a plane hijacker that otherwise would end the lives of hundreds or thousands of people, if that’s the only way to stop him/her? And then you have the trolley problem, where you are being exposed to hard problems like minimising the number of people killed, and other moral issues? If you think about it, that kind of categorical and dogmatic thinking can be problematic.
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