A Principle to Keep

A Principle to Keep

I believe that a principle we as humans should always keep is to never inflict more harm than is necessary. Essentially i believe that you should never hurt someone or something more than you absolutely need to. For example if someone if wounded and you are being chased by rabid dogs then instead of leaving them for the dogs to rip apart you should kill them quickly yourself. If you kill them instantly they will have less total pain than if you left them, which means that you can obtain a sense of pity for others as opposed to being cruel. If you limit pain like this it would mean that torture would be abolished, but that war would not, for torture is unnecessary while there is no easy way to eliminate an enemy without using war. Now you may ask what if the pain is for a good cause like torturing an enemy to gain information to save live, and to that i respond with this. In World War II there was a German Interrogation officer named Hanns Scharff he was one of the most effective interrogators of all time, and he never used physical means to gain information. Thus proving you can achieve the same goals and success by limiting pain to the most minimal level.