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Monty Harder
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Sat Aug 25 04:19:47 CDT 2001
8/24/01 7:03:39 AM, "Cox, Michael" <michael.cox at honeywell.com> wrote:
>"EVER?" So...you're saying that no one has the right to protect themselves
>or their family? Is that what you're saying? Because that sure *sounds*
>like what you're trying to say...
The Line is the distinction between self-defense and retaliation. If I am attacked, and I
neutralize the immediate threat,
I am not justified in using force to punish the aggressor. As a civilized human, I have delegated
my natural right to use
force in retaliation to a neutral arbiter. This is the moral justification for the existence of
government - read the
Declaration of Independence for details. Crossing that line is vigilantism, or Hatfield/McCoy,
Crip/Blood,
Protestant/Catholic, Jew/Moslem, Serb/Croatian perpetual civil war.
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