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Subject: re: self-defense (may Lauri's karma come true)
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Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 09:46:38 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  7 09:46:38 1985
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> 
> >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.
> 
> Your view of the situation is obviously obstructed by the lower end
> of your digestive path.  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.  
> 
> -- 
> Chapter-11/Multiple-Mega-Layoff Survivor (for now...)
> 
> Jeffrey P. Snover  -  STC StorageTek (Disk Division)

			***  OH REALLY!  ***

Jeffrey, I'm sorry but *your* attitude makes me puke.

Just where the hell do you get off castigating someone for being
willing to defend herself from attack by any means at her disposal?
It is attitudes such as yours that encourage murderers, rapist,
muggers and the like to ply their trade at their wim.

If it turns *you* on to lie back, turn the other cheek and allow
*your* attacker to have his/her way with *you* that is fine.  BUT,
don't you *dare* spout that holier-than-thou bullshit to someone who
is willing to accept a degree of responsibility for her own safety.

Charlie