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You are expanding my comments beyond the topic.

As far as I know, all of the abortion doctors killers violated their own principles: christians are not to use worldly weapons in spiritual warfare, but are only to use spiritual weapons. They violated the morality and principles of christianity.

As human beings we are quite capable of both great benevolence and great horror. Fortunately most people are able to balance their morality/principles with laws without harming anyone during their lifetime.

Many people are willing to die for their morality and principles...very few are willing to die to uphold the law.

"You then must believe it is perfectly acceptable to kill someone if it violates your own personal moral code." My moral code and principles are mine...I do not nor cannot impose my pet peeves onto others. Morality the resulting principles are internal...that by which I judge myself. This is a normal state of balance, but things can happen in anyone's life to create a shift in priorities, either temporary or long term. For instance, I would have no issue with shooting Osama bin Ladin or any of his henchmen. Nor anyone else who posed a immediate clear and present danger to my family or myself...and I wouldn't hesistate to come to the aid of strangers under attack by thugs.

In any suburban neighborhood there can usually be found a few convicted sexual predators, and at least one child molester. Through law enforcement websites I know who they are and where they live. I would not hunt any of them down to either harrass or kill them. But if a known child molester approached one of my kids, I would not hesitate to use lethal force.

A few years back my wife and I experienced an armed home invasion. Although I was unarmed, due to my martial arts training of many years I was able to quickly disarm and restrain the intruders while waiting for law enforcement to arrive. I could and legally and morally killed the thugs, but because of my training I was able to only use non-lethal force to gain total control of the situation. The thugs suffered only mild muscle sprains.

"Wow, I must be living on a different planet. You are one scary person if you really beieve this." For people who really know me, they feel more secure in their personal safety while in my presence. Only those who would attempt to do harm need to fear me. Otherwise, I am laid back and enjoy good humor.

I could go deeper into your statements, but that would be off topic and not suitable to this topic. People are complex, thus your attempt to reduce my personality to a simple knee-jerk analysis is an example of why we have needless and senseless conflicts and wars.

Hackers... are likewise complex in their motivations. Painting them all with a brush colored evil is unethical and exposes those who do so as being very shallow minded.

Posted by: cburgess   Posted on: 11/07/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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