Murder is Okay

There are many ways someone can be murdered i.e. killed deliberately. Whenever the term "murder" is given a new name such "combat", "abortion" (human life starts at conception), "capital punishment", or "assisted suicide/doctor-assisted dying/ mercy killing/" etc it is because they are generally considered okay by a large population. "Ethnic cleansing" is another example, although it often refers to deportation, population transfer, the term "cleansing" can be used to replace the word murder. We can use "self defence" without having to kill someone yet this term is often used when someone dies as a result and the phrase 'kill or be killed' is said to suggest it was not deliberate, as they didn't plan to kill someone that day. I won't be debating the above, as those forms of murder are given a new name, instead I shall be debating examples when only the term murder is used to describe the actions of someone. All human life is valuable, which is why when put in a situation whereby you can kill someone to save more lives it is morally correct i.e. acceptable. "85% of Americans approved of using the new atomic weapon on Japanese cities in 1945, this percentage has dropped to 56% in 2015 [1]" The number of Japanese who approve of being bombed will of course be much lower because people value their family and friends more highly than other people. But when you remove that thought, and those people who are killed and saved are random strangers you get a higher number of people who approve of killing to save more lives. Con and myself believe that the lives of the many outweigh the lives of the few. The NHS organ donor register allows people to have their decision about donating organs after their death to be recorded. If you have not made a decision to donate organs in the event of your death then the law allows family members to make the decision for you [2] "Approximately 250,000 additional life-years could be saved annually if consent for potential deceased donors could be increased to 100%." [3] "One deceased donor can save up to eight lives through organ donation and can save and enhance more than 100 lives through the lifesaving and healing gift of tissue donation." [4] There is a great deal of evidence to support murder, e.g. murdering one person will save more lives, and enhance many more lives. Even if a person did not sign the NHS organ register or discuss their views about organ donation and they were murdered family members can decide whether that person would have wanted to give their organs to other people and save lives. The vast majority of people will say "yes he/she would have wanted to do that". "Donation consent rate increased to 62% but still too low. In 2015/16, 1,364 people became organ donors when they died and their donations resulted in 3,519 transplants taking place" [5] The fact that most people want to save lives through dying, proven by the fact they signed the organ register, makes their death and the act of murdering them acceptable. Since there are not enough deceased organ donors to help those on the organ waiting list, every murderer has been saving many more lives than they have killed and making many more better. Of course there are murderers who bury dead bodies and so their organs don't go to any use, but that is only because they are trying to get away with murder and being punished as "murder" is illegal. Therefore evil occurs when murder is made illegal, and if it were made legal then it would be totally okay in the legal and moral sense. sources: [1] http://www.pewresearch.org... [2] https://www.hta.gov.uk... [3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... [4] http://www.americantransplantfoundation.org... [5] https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk...