-Cornelius Plantinga Jr., Not the Way It's Supposed to Be, 66.But in the meantime, and in general, I think we ought to pay evildoers, including ourselves, the “intolerable compliment” of taking them seriously as moral agents, of holding them accountable for their wrongdoing. This is a mark of our respect for their dignity and weight as human beings. After all, what could be more arrogant than treating other persons as if they were no more responsible than tiny children or the mentally maimed?
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The idea of the sanctity of life demands that when a human being either ends another person's life or alters the course of it through their evil doing it dishonors the victim to treat the perpetrator lightly.