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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 823064" data-attributes="member: 14668">Hypothetical scenario;&nbsp;You are sitting in a lawn chair on your lawn, minding your own business, and you have a loaded pistol on your belt.&nbsp;The woman who lives next door to you is sitting on her lawn, when her boyfriend/husband/significant other walks out of the house and starts beating the crap out of her with a tire iron. She tries to run but he grabs her and keeps hitting her while she screams for help.&nbsp;Do you (a) walk away and mind your own business or (b)sit there and watch and do nothing or (c) walk away and call the police, knowing full well that she will probably be dead by the time they arrive or (d) walk over to the edge of the lawn and stand there and lecture the guy on the evils of domestic violence while he continues to beat her to death or (e) walk over there with your pistol and shoot the sonofabitch?&nbsp;You pretty much have 5 options here, and they all suck. In my opinion, option (e) sucks the least, so it is the one I would pick. &nbsp;Option (e) does not set a precedent. Option (e) does not mean that I must now resolve every case of domestic violence in my city. Option (e) does not mean I am a warmonger, or that I want to pick and choose which bad guys to kill and which ones not to kill based upon my own selfish motives. Option (e) simply means that, in that moment and in that particular situation, taking direct action was the least worst choice that was available to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 823064, member: 14668"] Hypothetical scenario; You are sitting in a lawn chair on your lawn, minding your own business, and you have a loaded pistol on your belt. The woman who lives next door to you is sitting on her lawn, when her boyfriend/husband/significant other walks out of the house and starts beating the crap out of her with a tire iron. She tries to run but he grabs her and keeps hitting her while she screams for help. Do you (a) walk away and mind your own business or (b)sit there and watch and do nothing or (c) walk away and call the police, knowing full well that she will probably be dead by the time they arrive or (d) walk over to the edge of the lawn and stand there and lecture the guy on the evils of domestic violence while he continues to beat her to death or (e) walk over there with your pistol and [I]shoot[/I] the sonofabitch? You pretty much have 5 options here, and they [I]all[/I] suck. In my opinion, option (e) sucks the [I]least, [/I]so it is the one I would pick. Option (e) does not set a precedent. Option (e) does not mean that I must now resolve every case of domestic violence in my city. Option (e) does not mean I am a warmonger, or that I want to pick and choose which bad guys to kill and which ones not to kill based upon my own selfish motives. Option (e) simply means that, [I]in that moment and[/I] [I]in that particular situation[/I], taking direct action was the [I]least[/I] [I]worst [/I]choice that was available to me. [/QUOTE]

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