Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site randvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!bentley!hoxna!houxm!mhuxj!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!randvax!rohn From: rohn@randvax.UUCP (Laurinda Rohn) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: re: self-defense (may Lauri's karma come true) Message-ID: <2232@randvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Jan-85 23:27:27 EST Article-I.D.: randvax.2232 Posted: Sat Jan 5 23:27:27 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jan-85 03:45:05 EST References: <347@stcvax.UUCP> Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica Lines: 32 > >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 ..decvax!randvax!rohn