So if someone is well-known to be going to kill someone, at the planning and setup stage not a big firefight, but 100% going to do it, have done it in the past, and will do it again, with clear plans laid out on how to do it, and a cop shoots the person first, while the cop is cool and collected, cold-blooded, it is immoral?
I'd give you amoral. Immoral's a lot more questionable of a stance. You're pro-death and pro-harm if you declare it's always immoral to stop someone from harming others (even if it causes one person's, the bad agent's, death)
I think we have different definitions of "cold-blooded". the cop scenario you laid out is a situation where a good person kills a bad person to prevent that bad person from doing harm. I would agree that that scenario is justified and would even argue that it is moral.
murdering the CEO does not prevent United health from continuing to do the harm that they do. if anything, they will double down. given this, the only explanation for the murderer I can see is revenge, and that is immoral.
So if someone is well-known to be going to kill someone, at the planning and setup stage not a big firefight, but 100% going to do it, have done it in the past, and will do it again, with clear plans laid out on how to do it, and a cop shoots the person first, while the cop is cool and collected, cold-blooded, it is immoral?
I'd give you amoral. Immoral's a lot more questionable of a stance. You're pro-death and pro-harm if you declare it's always immoral to stop someone from harming others (even if it causes one person's, the bad agent's, death)
I think we have different definitions of "cold-blooded". the cop scenario you laid out is a situation where a good person kills a bad person to prevent that bad person from doing harm. I would agree that that scenario is justified and would even argue that it is moral.
murdering the CEO does not prevent United health from continuing to do the harm that they do. if anything, they will double down. given this, the only explanation for the murderer I can see is revenge, and that is immoral.