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A person on another forum was mean to me!
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RE: A person on another forum was mean to me!
(June 23, 2012 at 5:13 pm)Annik Wrote: Your knee-jerk reaction should not be your primary one. Yes, the man did something horrible, but that's why we have a court system.

In self defense or in defense of someone you love, knee-jerk reactions are the only reactions you have the luxury of having. Personally, I find the idea of stopping to think about it before acting because of some misplaced sense of justice to be a little sickening as well. If I were in a situation with a loved one and we walked in on what that man walked in on and said loved one paused to think over what the best course of action would be, allowing the child to continue being raped, my first course of action would be to stop the rape, my second to console the child and my third to bitch slap the idiot who has put so much stock into the ideals of justice and human behavior.

There is a reason why we are allowed to defend ourselves to the point of "murder." The justice system doesn't sit in every room and on every street protecting us from psychopaths. That man's knee jerk reaction saved his daughter, though the end result was not what he wanted. The end result was traumatic for him, but his daughter was protected nonetheless.

(June 24, 2012 at 7:17 am)Napoleon Wrote: But justifying murder, is in my opinion no way a moral high ground, which you seem to be trying to sit on.

No one is justifying a murder. The man did not commit murder. Killing someone accidentally without any other mitigating factor that would make you responsible despite lack of intent is not murder. The man did nothing wrong.
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A person on another forum was mean to me! - by padraic - June 23, 2012 at 2:38 am
RE: A person on another forum was mean to me! - by Cato - June 23, 2012 at 2:49 am
RE: A person on another forum was mean to me! - by Shell B - June 24, 2012 at 1:31 pm
RE: A person on another forum was mean to me! - by liam - June 23, 2012 at 5:52 pm
RE: A person on another forum was mean to me! - by Tempus - June 24, 2012 at 11:27 am

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