I want to know why people think killing is bad. Yeah. I mean, I'm not necessarily arguing that is is wrong/right, I'm wondering WHY you think its wrong(possibly right?). Many topics and arguments have dealt almost directly with death/arguable murder, such as capital punishment and abortion.
I liked MyndFyre's answer. Also, though, it's against nearly every religion's code of ethics to do this sort of thing. For example, the Ten Commandments forbid killing in Christianity and the Noble Eightfold Path forbids it in Buddhism.
Why is it that many people feel almost nothing in terms of grief when they read (miner killed in mudslide in Russia), but feel grief when someone close to you has died. I would think, whenever someone dies, its because you loved them and would miss them.
There is no emotional attachment to that miner, so we just think, "oh well, shit happens." We don't actually realize what grief that miner's death would have caused to his loved one. When someone dies close to us, we have lost someone very near and dear to us. There is a hole in our lives where that person used to be.
But what exactly does do you miss about them? If someone managed to completely duplicate the person's body and personality, would that fulfill the emptiness? Or do you believe the person has a soul, and that soul is forever lost?
I'd probably miss everything about the person. Also, I actually believe that the soul is not duplicable, and therefore, that the person is not the same. When that person dies, his soul leaves this plane of existance. I realize that they'd act the same, but I would be unable to treat them as such as they just aren't them.
That also leads me to another question. I'll relate to it in terms of cars(since many of you love them 
. If you had a car, and replaced the interior and the engine, you would still consider it the same car. What if you then replaced the tires? Then the rims? If you eventually replace all of it, would it still be the car you so dearly loved? How much of a thing can be missing until the part you loved is gone?
Well, I would feel it's the same car. I wouldn't change something I didn't want/need in it, so I would still love it just as much, if not more.
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How about in terms of people? If you truly loved someone(my definition of love is a passion for someone that is endless, but thats arguable), and they left for 10 years, had a complete incorrigible personality change, and extensive drug use and plastic surgery to the point of being unrecognizable, would you still love them? And I mean really love them, not have lingering caring feelings.
As I've never loved someone that much, I don't feel I'm qualified to give a good answer. However, my answer is no, I wouldn't love them. They completely changed for the worse, and the parts I would have fallen in love with are gone. It's very different from the idea of replacing the parts of a car. Everytime I would have changed the car, it would have been an improvement or something necessary to keep it going, so the car would become more of what I would want and love.
