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Re: This is where I actually want a gun
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 8 Feb 2004 05:02:19 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
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See, when the emotions get involved, can one really make a rational decision
where life is concerned.
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But if we are not outraged when atrocities occur, we are morally doomed.
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I don’t know what’s the right thing to do. If given a gun and this guy in a
room, I’d kill him. But would that be Just? I dunno.
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How would it be unjust? Showing him the same mercy he showed seems just to me.
The injustice is that there is a family whose lives have been completely
shattered forever and this puke is allowed to continue to exist.
Again I admit that that would be human justice, not divine.
JOHN
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| (...) And if we stoop to the level of the atrocity committer in our meting out of justice, we are also so doomed. (...) Assuming he did it. I grant it looks pretty certain but never can you be 100% CERTAIN. Do you know for *sure* what exactly (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Well, I did start the post with " Which is probably why I shouldn't be allowed to get one... " See, when the emotions get involved, can one really make a rational decision where life is concerned. I don't know what's the right thing to do. If (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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