Is it ok to kill if it is in self defense?

If someone is trying to kill you try to knock them out or incopacitate them in some way, but if you kill them in the process that's alright because self preservation is the first law of nature. It is either them or you.

kill or be killed.... retaliation is the thing that they only put on their mind... the more your accept their game to engage fight... the more they retaliate because they doesn't want to loose also.... so be better to stay away from trouble if you can.... if isn't it a life threatening situation, escape if you can.... if you can't escape, and if your life is threatened.... then that is the time you fight.... but if you fight, be sure there is no one witnesses... just only the two of you.... if he live's, he will retaliate, he will retaliate not to his enemy but to his enemy's families.... so to make the story short.... be better to escape and don't engage in a fight if you have 1,001 ways just to escape.... by that, you win a combat without fighting......

I would certainly hope so. If I was in a situation where my children were in danger and it the attacker or my children you can bet heavy that I would shoot. I think anyone in such a situation might shoot to stop, not kill. But if it was an accident I would hope that that would be taken into consideration. I am a pacifist until someone harms my family!

It is perfectly fine to kill in self defense, i will not loose sleep over it so long as l am alive. Call me whatever you like, it will not bother me a bit.

I don't think it's right to kill but if it's an accident due to self-defense then I think they'll be left off the hook. Killing is never good to say the least. Even if it's self-defense I don't think anyone would see it as okay.

If one can defend himself without killing other then he should better do that but if it is question of only one will survive then it should be alright if you kill in self defence. However self defence is always to be proved, that indeed it was you who would have got killed by the assailant had you not acted.

For the Christian there can be no doubt; to kill another is to kill Christ. Those that follow Christ cannot take up arms, with the possible exception of immediate defence of another, not themselves all the best urban

I think that it is okay in self defense, but I don't think that property should go under self defense. A life isn't worth any stuff. I very much respect strict pacifists who will not kill in any circumstance, but I don't think that that is something I would do. I hold this view because it is natural to kill in self-defense. It is built into us. Fight or flight. And I do not consider war to be self-defense, unless of course it is a civilian who is doing the self-defense.

If it's self defense and it's my life/families life or their life then i will kill them.I could not just sit by and know that i am going to die without trying anything,i have a long life to live and if someone is so crazy that they would want to kill me for some reason then i will try to kill them before they do so.

Tough question there. I'd do anything to push away that attacker from my family and property, probably grabbing anything to knock him out or something, and I'd use my full force. It's part of our fight or flight syndrome, I suppose, we need to survive. If the attacker gets killed in the process, I'd probably end up feeling so guilty and relieved at the same time. Guilty that I took a life and relieved that my family/property's going to be safe. I would support self-defense killing because of the need to protect.

it's never ok to take someone's life. even in self defense. subdue if you can. kill if necessary.

When if there a situation grows in which you have 2 options. first is to kill and second is to be killed. In my opinion it is wise to choose first option because if you choose not to kill then thats all you will no longer be there to think whether whatever you have done was correct or not. Nothing is more precious to you than your life.

If necessary I will kill to protect my loved ones. If the attacker doesn't care about the victims well-being then why should I care about his. But, of course, if killing is the last resort, if I could subdue the attacker then it would be great.

I think if I still have a choice that I don't need to kill the attacker, and still have other way to stop the killing, I will not kill anyone, but if when I'm already on a position that the attacker will surely kill one of my love ones, and if I didn't make an action right away is any of my love ones will die, maybe I could consider fighting back, but not really kill the attacker if possible, just to stop it from killing someone that I love. well it's a hard scene to imagine, and I know that until I didn't experienced it yet I will not surely know what I'll do.

Let me put it another, the reverse. Supposing you are threatened by an evil person. He has a knife or a club, and he makes threatening advances on you. So you say to yourself, "I will not stoop to his level. I will use my firm voice." but he raises his weapon, and you black out. You wake up in the hospital, the doctors tell you that they barely saved your life, but at least you are alive. " You smile with pride that you did not turn into a killer. Then the police give you the news. Your wife and children have been slaughtered, and not only that the murderer, the one whom you did not stoop as also killed your grandparents as well as the nearby neighbours who would have indentified him. They just have your desscription but it is not that reliable because he beat you about the head as well and you are suffering from cuncussion. So if yiou say that if what you had done if you killed him was immoral, well would it have been immoral to have let a killer go to do even eviler deeds? Yes ut would. If you had called the police but they would not have made it, you were justified in defending you, and your family against a monster.

Yes if your life is in danger your protecting your loved ones or friends than yes if there just looking to fight than I don't think so you should only do it if you absolutely have to.

On the one hand, I have to believe that no one wants to kill; that--if I can persist long enough to show them how they're hurting themselves more than anyone else--they'll stop before they kill somebody. However, the other hand can't convince them fast enough to stop them before they make the kill ... so the only other way to stop them is ...