Alright, so in my Social Anthropology class, our teacher (who is Lutheran though he says alot of stuff about the Bible during class that really makes me mad because he's impressioning the ignorant minds of my fellow class mates who know little of the Bible and so are inclined to believe what he says, especially if it coincides with their cause; ie: homosexuality)
so somehow we got on the topic of a hypothetical question. A fellow classmate started saying "shoot her shoot her" about it. Well, I asked what the question was. And apparently someone said something along the lines of 'a crazy person, kills another person' and then I chimed in, "you shouldn't resort to killing her" Well, then my teacher (who's keened in on my faith), asked me, "Monica, what would you do?"
I said, "I would incarcerate her"
"But what if you couldn't do that, would you kill her, or let her kill all those other people?"
Now, because I was on the spot, I just thought, killing is wrong. And if it was meant to happen, then it was meant to happen. So I said, "If it was meant to happen and all those people die, then so be it." Then my teacher mumbled something about God in a very condesending tone.
I want to know, was that the right answer? I mean, I'm not completely sure what it says in the Bible about self defense. I always use to think that if someone was trying to kill me, that I could kill them before they got to kill me ya know? But the way the question was worded, it was saying that we should kill the girl even though she hadn't attacked anyone yet. Just like killing a dog after it bites someone just so it won't have the chance to do it again.
What was the best answer to that question? I didn't mean to make Christians look bad either, I guess I should have thought longer about that question :-/