A person on another forum was mean to me!

[Autumnlicious]

Just so, Pad, and Shell pointed this out in another example above. If someone threatens you or your family with serious injury, you do have the justified right to end his life if that is what it takes to neutralize the threat.

Enjoy your prison cell, then.

Clearly you've never dealt with raging assholes. That or too many.

They blow a lot of steam and wave their arms. It's the quiet and silent ones I consider threatening.

Also, you have no right to search and destroy someone just for their threats or assault them.

In cases (court castes) where the above is shown and presented as evidence, there is also a consistent history that characterizes abuse -- that which often is argued to be a mitigating circumstance.

Certainly, the police and the courts will have to determine whether you were justified in your actions, but they do so (as in this case) every day. Suggesting that people in the absolute heat of the moment are not justified in protecting the lives and well-being of themselves or their family is missing the forest for the trees.

Except that the forest of statistics is against you given your absolute statement above.

Your statement would have us murder each other everyone someone threatens to kill you or someone you care about and various other levels of disproportionate responses to a lot of blustering and windbagging.

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i don't think anyone here is advocating murder, whether self defense or otherwise. but the simple fact is, if you commit a violent act against a person in their home, you accept the risk that you could die for doing so.

You fool. You just advocated murder.

Edit: removed vitriol. just because I'm pissed from work doesn't mean I should be calling people names.