i believe that Mr.A has done something "wrong", "bad", or "sinful", because no one person has the right to judge wether or not a person should live.

why not? on what basis should Mr. A refrain from killing Ms. B? That is, why doesn't a person "have that right", as you put it.

two reasons.

it's morally and socially wrong.

both of those reasons [morals and socal right and wrong] were, i believe, created to prevent anarchy.

which i believe is wrong. because when anarchy reigns, no one is safe. Their lives, posessions, and loved ones can be taken from them much easier than if there was a decent legal system.

Why must this man (Mr A) care about any "lives, possessions, and loved ones" that are not his?

because if he cares about other's "lives possesions and loved ones" then others will most likely care about his. It's pretty much the only way he can get others to care about his.

Does he need others to care?  why?

it's a matter of self intrest if others care about what is good for him.

I understand.  Must "A" have this self interest or do we assume he does because we do?

we assume "A" has a self intrest because he is still alive. Meaning, if someone does not have self intrest they will either kill themselves or allow themselves to be killed.

interesting.  keep in mind that this is not my question but one i found.  I am thinking through it just as you are.  What we have here is a snap shot in time.  Even if being alive equals self interest, we do not even know that he is alive.  For all i know "A" was killed or killed himself after he killed "B".  All really "know" is what is actually in the question.

I read a study on cognition and instinct recently. The study shows that our respect for life is genetic, that knowing it is wrong to harm/kill another is not a learned behavior. Also, it has been proven that soldiers experience a traumatic, irreversible psychological shift at the moment of killing for the first time. Regardless of training and conditioning, their minds are forced to take one of two directions, sociopathy or insanity.
Thus, taking the above facts into consideration, I would say Mr. A is not acting out of a healthy mind. So, Mr. A's absence of  a healthy mind make consideration of his actions being wrong, bad, or sinful irrelevant.
My belief is the issue is one of health v disease. However, if considered outside that realm what you are asking reads to do is justify and/or explain things which are exclusively subjective by nature. That being the case, there is no answer to your questions, but instead a open argument of subjective reasoning with, certainly, some Bible quoted thrown in for "proofs".

Thoughtful answer, thanks. This question may not have an answer, just more questions. I am not sure.

I'm liking this en seriatum.

good.  i am glad.

(this is the best page design to date Phil... it looks fantastic)

my name is not phil. I got that question online and credited the author. And thanks.

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I am dobie.  and, thanks.

This ties in, as have a few of these, with relative morality.  If it is wrong, according to the consensus of the society in which these individuals live, then Mr. A has done something wrong.  If it is against the commandments of his religion, then he has also sinned.

So, pycho, has he done something wrong?  if so, on what basis?

If his culture frowns on murder, then yes.

If not, then I don't see the problem.

It's relative.

all we know is what is in the question.  we don't know his culture.

Then we can't say.

decent answer.  read some of the other responses psycho.

I have.  I merely disagree.

In feudal Japan, it was perfectly within a daimyo's right to draw his sword and decapitate any of his retainers at a whim.

Everything is relative to the context in which it takes place.

disagree with whom?  The question is "what is the basis?"  "We can't say" is a decent answer.

The people who outright said it was wrong. 

I am working through it with them.  But, in the end, how they feel about it is not my call.  I think it is wrong, but that is not really the point of the question.  the real question is "what is the basis?" as you know.

Quite.  It's not my place to judge their answers.

Free thought!

yup.  nor theirs to judge yours (at least with respect to these sorts of questions)

Has Mr A done anything wrong?  Hmmmm, in my eyes, heart, mind.....YES! NO ONE has that right to TAKE life from anyone else.  That said though, Mr A does not need to feel guilt, sin or bad about how he feels about Ms B.  Labeling ones feelings as "bad" or "good" does not make that much sense.  Just accept what "is".  This is a concept I am learning and I can agree with it in the sense that sometimes there is not really a "right/wrong" or "good/bad".  However, my view on life and right to life just is my view, and I think that it was not a choice that Mr A should be ok with making.  He could have moved to a different area to live without Ms. B.

"Mr A does not need to feel guilt, sin or bad . . ."

why? on what basis should Mr. A feel guilt for killing Ms. B?

well, in context, I said he should not feel guilt, sin or bad for how he feels.  I do think that if he killed her though, unless he had no capacity for human emotion and emotional warmth, I would think there would be no way he could avoid feeling bad, guilty, or sinful.  Thinking in terms of "doing no harm" to others should allow you to feel the way you choose to feel without attaching a label of guilt, good, bad, etc to it.  But when you act on those feelings, and the possibility of someone actually suffering because of those actions.....well, that's an entirely different ball game.

Should we do no harm to others? if not, why not?

well, I feel we should do no harm to others.  I know that many would disagree with me.  But from a personal standpoint, I know that it's the way I have to live my life, because when I do harm to others, I personally cannot be at peace.

that works for me as well.  Is it necessary that it works for "A"? 

depends on if he's a friend of mine   friends of mine would have to have some sense of the same way of thinking as me..........I don't know that I could align myself or be friends with someone that would have no feelings of guilt for killing someone for no reason.  But that's just me

nor would he likely be my friend.