No, it’s not ethical. If you have the means to hire a hitman, you have means to escape. What’s the abuser going to do, sit there in the room with you while you ask someone to kill him?
In which case, if you’ve got the opportunity to talk to someone who would be willing to murder said abuser, then you have the opportunity to get away from the abuser full stop. There’s no realistic situation in which one would be true and the other wouldn’t be.
If you cannot escape, you have to defend yourself with the full capacity of taking a life. If you can escape, its your duty to escape and find an avenue for the justice system to handle it.
Realistic scenario: teenager in an abusive family in a small town. They don’t have much money, or friends they can stay with but they do have a meth head cousin who’ll do anything for $20 if you know how to ask.
No, it’s not ethical. If you have the means to hire a hitman, you have means to escape. What’s the abuser going to do, sit there in the room with you while you ask someone to kill him?
In which case, if you’ve got the opportunity to talk to someone who would be willing to murder said abuser, then you have the opportunity to get away from the abuser full stop. There’s no realistic situation in which one would be true and the other wouldn’t be.
If you cannot escape, you have to defend yourself with the full capacity of taking a life. If you can escape, its your duty to escape and find an avenue for the justice system to handle it.
Realistic scenario: teenager in an abusive family in a small town. They don’t have much money, or friends they can stay with but they do have a meth head cousin who’ll do anything for $20 if you know how to ask.