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From: rohn@randvax.UUCP (Laurinda Rohn)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: re: self-defense (may Lauri's karma come true)
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Date: Sat, 5-Jan-85 23:27:27 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan  5 23:27:27 1985
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> >from Lauri Rohn (me)
> >Please excuse my bloodthirstiness, but if I am being attacked, I will most
> >certainly do my best to stop my attacker.  If I must maim or kill him/her,
> >that's the way it goes.  My "moral paradigm" is protecting myself.  If, in
> >the process of doing so, I have to be "immoral and irresponsible", I will.
> >I think attacking someone is "immoral and irresponsible" also.
> 
> >If I have to act like an animal to defend myself against an animal, dammit,
> >I'm going to do so!!!  What do you suggest?  That I simply shouldn't fight
> >my attacker because I'm so much better morrally than they are?  Wonderful.
> >I can die superior.  Excuse me if that isn't a great comfort to me.
> 
> from Jeffrey P. Snover
> Your view of the situation is obviously obstructed by the lower end
> of your digestive path.

Thank you for this wonderfully constructive piece of criticism.

>                          Your logic is similar to some graffitti that I
> saw at the University of Colorado: "Murder all Rapists!".  If that is
> your attitude then I hope your karma is realized - for what you put out
> is what you will get.  

And where did I say this?  That I would like to kill all rapists?  I
said nothing of the sort.  Please be more careful in your interpretation
of what others say.  What I did say is that I would defend myself if
attacked in any way that I possibly could.  Have you a better suggestion?


					Lauri
					rohn@rand-unix.ARPA
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