Same answer as always and not too entertaining. Sorry Rick.If you have a gun and I have a gun (or whatever) and we are put into an area where one of us must kill the other........No contest.....If I can, I will kill you.
Afterwards? How do I deal with it? How do I get the rationalization thing going? Well...............beats me, but I'd try I know.
So the real question becomes one of who decides I should do what and when. Killing for Karen and the kids I can rationalize....me too. Because I was asked to or ordered to do it for any reason.................Better be a damn good reason! Obviously for me, Vietnam wasn't one.
Euthanasia?...........another thread
Spaw