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Subject: 
Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
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Date: 
Sat, 20 Nov 1999 00:49:01 GMT
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On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 02:34:03 GMT, "Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com>
wrote:

Whew!  Gosh gosh gosh, I don't know.  I'm afraid I'm having difficulty
keeping my knee-jerk response separate from my intellectual one.

Who doesn't?

What if, in the earlier example, the rape victim fought off her attacker, and
in the process killed him?  Who, then, is guilty of what?

Short answer: I dunno. That bit requires much further thought.

I guess a few of us are having trouble weighing moral-outrage against
moral-obligation.  A prickly issue, to be sure...

Yeah, it is.

Jasper



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Message-Id: <slrn83cdbc.bqp.cjc@...s.utk.edu> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.4 (UNIX) (...) Hunh? Rape ought to be a capital crime anyway, but if a rape victim, as in someone who is at that moment being raped, fights off her rapist and kills him in the (...) (25 years ago, 20-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) Whew! Gosh gosh gosh, I don't know. I'm afraid I'm having difficulty keeping my knee-jerk response separate from my intellectual one. What if, in the earlier example, the rape victim fought off her attacker, and in the process killed him? Who, (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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