A person on another forum was mean to me!

[Annik]

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.

That isn't the knee-jerk reaction I was talking about (it's more directed at those who are praising that a man was beaten to death), but if you want to get into that...
A child was raped, yes. In response, the father beat a man to death, which it seems like it was not his intention to do. As mentioned in this thread previously, the father will now have to live with the fact he killed someone. It might be easy for us to reason away, but we didn't pound someone to death with our fists. The daughter will grow up, knowing her father ended another life. Finally, there is the deceased, who we don't have the right to execute on the street.

There is more than the initial anger that comes with knowing that kind of stuff. I know that the father called an ambulance, the police, anyone and everyone to save the man's live. He didn't want the man who raped his daughter to die. You might want to think about that before you get so gleeful over a man's murder. I'm not saying the father should be charged or anything like that, but there should not have been a death that night.

Not one has sovereign over your life but you. Only you can decide to take your own life and (short of accidents) no one has the right to take it from you. This is regardless of the choices that person made. No one has the right to take another's life. Period.

I think you're getting my views mixed up with idealistic faith in the justice system. The justice system does fail us, however, that do not give one the right to carry out whatever justice they see fit. These are my beliefs and they only concern one's right to live and the "right" to take away life (which we have no claim to). It's a separate issue from human behavior or the justice system.

The father didn't do the "right" thing. He didn't want his daughter's rapist to die. Why is everyone so happy he did?

Furthermore, today was the I realized I can stick to my guns.

EDIT: I just want to add that I'm not saying one should sit there and allow their child to be harmed, but this is about the waste of the life.