Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4682609-20130302064901/@comment-25396661-20140921001617

Feedback100 wrote: Mr.Mandude wrote: Blaziken rjcf wrote: Mr.Mandude wrote: NPZman wrote: Ben was about to kill driscoll in the purge That was because he was a huge threat, and he had a lot of aliens killed. Thats not murder, thats justice. Now if he were to kill just a little crook like Nancy Chan for no real reason, that would be murder, which Ben wouldn't do. Is killing murderers "justice"? Murder is murder, no matter how much you try to cover it up. Call it whatever you'd like; it doesn't change the reality. Sort of, it depends on the situation. Look at governments. Most of them have a death penalty for the worst criminals who will never change. Ben is a plumber, and plumbers are enforcers of inter galactic law. I'm just saying, Ben has said that he might have to kill people before, but thats only when they are such a threat that he HAS to, in order to protect others because that is his duty as a plumber. But almost everytime that he said that he ends up not doing it because he was able to defeat them without killing them. So, I think that if someone is such a threat to the galaxy and refuses to give up their ways to the point that they have to be killed in order to save countless otherf from them, that that isn't murder. No law would ever concider that murder, expesially since ben is pretty much a space cop.

But my point was that Ben would never try to kill Nancy Chan, or any other weak villan because they would likely never be that much of a threat. Now if Ben DID kill her just because she commited a small robery, that WOULD be murder, and abuse of power. A murder is a murder and there is no way Ben has the power to decide such penalty, all that he can do is send them to the jail not kill them. I suppose he can only do such thing if the plumbers order him to do and not simply because he is a plumber.

Yeesh, this conversation got a lot deeper than it was supposed to. But anyway, in the circamstances I was refering to, Ben would have the power to KILL someone without it being concidered MURDER. You have to realize that killing and murdering are two different things, for example kiling in self defense is not concidered murder by really any government. Also, police are given the right to kill, if it is 100% necesary in order to protect others from the one they have to kill.

And that very situation would apply if Ben killed driscol. Ben is a plumber, plumbers have legal athority, and Driscol was a huge threat who had already killed countless citizens, and was trying to kill countless more. As a plumber, it is Ben's duty to stop him, and if no other options were available, he would have to resort to killing him in order to do that. luckily, he was able to defeat him without killing him, but if he wasn't, it would not have been concidered murder.

So basically, ben DOES have the legal power to kill someone if they are a threat to others and no other options are available, and it woulnd't be concidered murder.