Political Science: To Kill or Not to Kill?
Summary: Each reader is first asked to reflect upon the question: “Is a nonkilling society possible?” If not, why not? If yes, why?. For the purpose of the question, a nonkilling society is taken to be a human community from smallest to largest encompassing all humankind that has the following characteristics: There is no killing of humans, at least, and no threats to kill. There are no weapons for killing (“hardware”) and no legitimisations, justifications, or permissions to kill (“software”). And there are no conditions of society that depend for maintenance or change upon the threat or use of lethal force. That is, a nonkilling society is taken to be one in which humans neither kill nor threaten to kill each other
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