KeepTalking
Code Monkey
- Joined
- Jan 15, 2010
- Messages
- 4,641
- Location
- St. Louis Metro East
- Basic Beliefs
- Atheist, Secular Humanist, Pastifarian, IPUnitard
That's how I felt at the time. If I had a gun, however, that fistfight would have turned into a shootout, and would have increased the chances of one of us, or even and innocent bystander, not going home that night. It wasn't worth it for $7 and a ring.
Philosophising after it's all over is one thing, but that should not determine legal liability for an act.
And philosophizing after the fact is all I was doing. Even at that, I think that someone shooting an killing a mugger in the act of mugging is justified. Shooting the mugger in the back as he is running away, however, would not be.
Morally wrong? Maybe. Legally punishable? I don't think we want a world where it is.
Given that I have not indicated that is desirable to me, I'm not sure what brought this on.