The Grand Solution

Inflicting death on others is often regarded as far more brutal a thing than it truly is.  In turn, the fact that death even from natural causes is ultimately the best and most lasting way a person's errors and evils could be remedied is something that many people would not only fail to realize left to themselves out of philosophical blindness, but also something they would deeply dislike.  What matters, though, is if it is true, for neither moral significance nor pragmatic benefit are appointed by what someone is comfortable with.  It is indeed a fact that death is the grand solution to the slightest stupidities and the most extensive errors and injustices, but what makes this the case?

A dead person--one who is truly nonexistent on a mental plane--cannot be guilty of any irrationality, cruelty, selfishness, or apathy towards matters of importance.  Death is the only way to ensure that whatever stupidity and injustices a person harbors cease.  Lest some fools truly believe that death itself is cruel, they must realize that death is the only way to be forever incapable of either inflicting or suffering any kind of cruel behavior.  As long as someone with free will exists, there will always be an opportunity for them to sin against their own self, God, and others.  The point at hand is not that God letting people live forever by default is unjust, but that death is the most effective solution to sin.

Even a morally perfect person could fall into error; even a morally hideous person could suffer unjust harshness.  However, a dead person can neither mistreat others nor be mistreated.  Their thoughts, experiences, desires, and capacity for action are simply removed from existence.  Of course, this is never true according to the standard ideas about hell, which drive deluded Christians to labor in vain over finding ways to equate death with eternal torment.  The Bible does not teach most of the things about hell that Christians have regularly assumed, and if their stances were Biblical, they would prove that the text says or very directly seems to say that all beings in hell suffer without end.

Keep someone who is dangerous alive, and they could continue to be a danger.  Keep someone who is evil alive, and they could continue to do evil.  Cosmic, lasting death, therefore, is inherently the most pragmatic way to deal with stupidity and evil.  Now, within the context of Christian theology, the second death is just because it reflects God's moral nature, which is a different aspect of eternal nonexistence than its efficiency at stopping evil.  The pervasive and asinine idea that killing is the most vile thing one person could do to another might stop someone from understanding that this would make a true second death the ideal pragmatic response to human immorality.

Aside from the moral nature of death (for even if the death of others had utilitarian benefits, that would not make it morally obligatory to kill in any specific cases for the sake of justice), both the "first death" and the second death, it can be easily proven that death is the most efficient, permanent, and pain-free way to prevent someone from engaging in evil and disregarding truth.  When mere death is so obviously an effective and non-cruel way (if not coupled with intentional tortures) to remedy the presence of abusers, egoists, and irrationalists, it should hardly surprise a thoughtful Christian that death is the wages of sin.