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Cartoon_Cat wrote

I think all people have it in them to commit the act - especially in the US where everyone has the means to instantly end a life in a split second of panic.

I spose the big difference would be if someone had it in them to deal with the aftermath, or even to kill a second, third or fourth time, or to kill multiple people in a premeditated action. I don't think I have it in me to be a 'killer', but certainly in the 'right' situation I'd likely be capable.

It's justified to kill exploiters/oppressors in self defence or liberation, but how much can you hold their followers responsible? How far down the chain can you go before it isn't justified?

It's actually a question I struggle with regularly to a less extreme extent - the same people that mindlessly defend the right to eat animals are the same people that would have mindlessly supported and maintained human slavery, but once the status quo changes (and the slavers are eliminated) they change too. One one hand I hate them for the harm they cause, but on the other I know they are not the ones responsible for the way they think and act. So I can't justify harming them unless they target me first, because they're quite literally tools.

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