(December 14, 2014 at 11:08 am)IATIA Wrote: There is a difference between spur of the moment and premeditated.
Fire fighters don't train themselves for years to run into a building while everyone else is running out? Some intend to spend a life time doing this very thing. Many on 9/11 did.
The same is true for the soldier, and an arguement can be made for the mother. While the indivisual desisions may have been made in a relative short amount of time when compared to an infinite past, I would say if one's duty or love is that strong to have themselves sacrifice themselves for another, these people would do this no matter how much time they had to think about it.
