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It's not the doctrine. But it's the logical extrapolation.



It’s not, because it assumes all sorts of things about the purpose of life and the afterlife, what’s “better,” and applies a utilitarian definition to the morality of killing.


Sure. It assumes torturing innocents is bad for example. Many religious people seem to not 100% back that assumption. I think that's a problem :P




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