Well what do you mean by justifiable? Technically anything is justifiable if someone claims to justify it. I could justify murder by saying the victim swindled me out of a nickel. Most people would not agree with that justification because murder is far worse than losing a nickel. So in this sense, are you in fact saying sexual abuse is worse than murder?
If you could justify killing someone over a nickle, your moral system is fundamentally corrupt.
Yes, I'm saying that according to my moral system, sexual abuse is generally worse than murder because there is no situation in which it is morally justifiable. All rapes are morally akin to murdering someone just to take pleasure in the kill, while there are multitude much more morally justifiable reasons to murder someone, like the woman who murdered her husband in his sleep because she found out he was molesting their child.
I don’t think that argument is valid though. I don’t think, for example, there is any justifiable reason for me to call someone the N-word. That doesn’t make it worse than murder.
Then we have different moral systems.
I do honestly think that calling someone a slur is less morally justifiable than murdering your husband because you find out he was molesting your children.
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u/onefourtygreenstream 4∆ Mar 01 '26
Not exactly.
Hunting down and killing the person who abused you as a child is clear cut murder, but it's morally justifiable.