Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site h-sc1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!h-sc1!desjardins From: desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: The right to be a lethal danger Message-ID: <404@h-sc1.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 13:18:20 EDT Article-I.D.: h-sc1.404 Posted: Fri Jun 28 13:18:20 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 07:18:12 EDT References: <369@cmu-cs-edu1.ARPA> <153@SCINEWS.UUCP> <1184@ihuxe.UUCP> Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center Lines: 17 > > "Reasonable" uses like blasting away in a fit of parental rage, executing the > death penalty for a crime which the law holds to be non-capital. > > YOU have your head so far up your own beloved ass you can't see reason for shit. > YOU may advocate the death penalty for child molestation, but until the law > ratifies your opinion you have no right to take it in your own hands. > The law allows you to use deadly force in self-defense. You have no way of knowing if an attacker is going to attempt to kill you or not, but if they are using violence I believe you have a right to protect yourself (or your helpless child). And it is CERTAINLY possible that (in the example given) an eleven-month old child could die from being sexually abused and beaten (believe me, it happens!) marie