Emily asked, Although it is possible to believe that murder is the right course of action, is there anyone in history who actually believed that the murder of innocents (meaning that the murderer believed them to be innocent, not us) was right?
There are definitely people who murder innocents and think it’s the right thing. The most obvious example I can think of would be human sacrifices for religious reasons. While many groups sacrificed prisoners of wars or enemies they have enslave. However, there are many groups who sacrificed innocents.
The Incas—a Native American group that lived in South America—sacrificed innocents all the time. In fact, not only did they sacrifice innocents, they sacrificed children. They believed that by killing those children, their gods would be appeased, and they were not the only ones who took part in those kinds of rituals.
Whether it’s a religious ritual or not, those sacrifices were murders. The leaders of the tribes that decided to kill people to appease their gods were no less murderers than Hitler. They believed that by sacrificing the children, their world would be a better place, just like Hitler believed that when he killed Jews. However, those leaders fully believed that the children they were killing were innocent—in fact, that was the entire point. It was supposed to be a great honor to be considered innocent enough to be sacrificed.
My question in response is, Is it any less of a crime when people die for a cause?
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