Are all killers marked for life? Even the (as can be) innocent ones?!
Question: If you are a serial killer, yeah, **** you. I'm not defending them. What if someone breaks in your house and you blow their head of? That is mentally stressful enough (trust me my family is military), should you be mentally marked because of it? Should someone get a negative reaction? "Oh, you see that revolver in his pocket? Yeah, he killed a pedophile with it." 99.9% of the population doesn't like pedophiles, but you will still be known as the guy who actually ended the pedophiles life. Is that what happens? Is this normal?
Answers: If you are a serial killer, yeah, **** you. I'm not defending them. What if someone breaks in your house and you blow their head of? That is mentally stressful enough (trust me my family is military), should you be mentally marked because of it? Should someone get a negative reaction? "Oh, you see that revolver in his pocket? Yeah, he killed a pedophile with it." 99.9% of the population doesn't like pedophiles, but you will still be known as the guy who actually ended the pedophiles life. Is that what happens? Is this normal?
In my humble opinion it is always wrong under any circumstances to take another humans life! I n our country the USA the intent to kill another human is there in a majority of the population in that 9 out of 10 citizens, who are not hunters, military, law enforcement or children under 17-18 yrs, possess a gun. That possesion is prima facie evidence to me that the taking of another human's life is contemplated and not considered wrong. So it is probable if they use that gun even in self defense they will rationalize the murder as being OK.
But they will always thereafter have the knowledge that they have killed and that in some way "marks them" for life in their own mind. I recall a veteran or two in the VA system who were haunted by the memory of the face of the enemy they had killed and this severely affected them in PTSD. Others were able just to shrug it off. Some even flaunted the fact of having killed as an honor. It marks people differently But it marks them.
If one is religious it may be that they believe they are forgiven but I think, if there is life after life at least one will have to at least face in the next life that or those people they have killed or maliciously caused to die..
It is not normal for humans to kill, you are not born that way (I have never heard of a three year old having killed another) you have to be nurtured to kill. Yet it is quite common for humans to take anothers life in war, self-defense or by the death penalty. But I think they are marked adversally psychologically by this.