>>18941157>Also certain christian values I don't agree with, for example believing it's always morally wrong to kill someone. In my view there are a lot of people who deserve to die and you'd be justified in killing them.Well, as a Christian, I do firmly believe that some people deserve death, especially very morally repugnant people. They deserve the death penalty. And also we have a firm line between murder and killing. Killing is necessary, especially in self-defense or in the name of war, like especially just war. But murder for a sinner's own sick amusement is bad. It's sinful. It's a mortal sin. And also the justification of death penalty according to Catholic theology is and law.
Essentially is that murder is a private unjust killing of an innocent person, but legitimate execution is the lawful infliction of proportionate punishment by a competent public authority upon a legitimately convicted of a crime. And Saint Thomas Aquinas puts this principle very clearly: public authority possesses special responsibility for the common good and therefore possesses the authority that private individual does not.