Wry Catcher
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- #41
Then you must agree that the premise - force or reason - is sound.Of course it is.Pssst.... The law is "force". The point is sound.
In context -- that is, acting in one own self-defense - shooting/beating someone is certainly within the law.I simply made a distinction based on the context of PC's remarks, and pointed out that in my response to her. In context, shooting and possibly killing someone committing an assault/battery is not within the law.
In the abstract force or reason is sound. They are not mutually exclusive in a civil society. One might be foreced into treatment and violent behavior might be extinquished (Alec, in A Clockwork Orange for an extreme example. Early intervention when a child is physically aggressive is another. The debate is not simple nor should it devolve in a defense of political beliefs.
As for your judgment that shooting someone in self defense is within the law, that is open to debate. The evidence must prove the action taken was within the law, that is, the use of reasonable force.