Taking the law into one's own hands rarely results in a good outcome. The
risks/rewards are generally way out of whack in these equations. I might do
what I could legally do to make everyone in government who was not doing there
job as uncomfortable as possible and be careful to not publicly slander the
scum sucking SOB assailant. I would also seek peace and healing in the
places/means that worked for me.
As an aside, in one of my previous lives, I work in the Texas Department of
corrections as an intern one summer. One of the residents (scum sucking SOB
assailants) who was incarcerated for sexual assault decided his weewee had
offended him . . . so he chopped it off. Bill Barber
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From: Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, Dec 10, 2013 10:32 am
Subject: Re: [OM] B&W and War
> My previous post spoke of the realities of war. This thread has now become
one dealing with the morality of war. Let me stir the OT pot a bit by saying
there are those who say what we are talking about is state sanctioned murder.
In that realm, are not war, capital punishment and abortion moral equivalents?
Is each of these not a state sanctioned murder? Bill Barber
Oooo. What a way to stir the pot! I'm going to add another twist to this.
Let's say, for argument sake, your teenage daughter is assaulted (no
further details necessary). The assailant is known. Do you, as the
father, exact justice or let the government do it for you? And what if
the government chooses to not do anything for whatever reason? The
problem here is that the state sanctioned "justice" is not doing its
job. In our "civilized society" we have handed off justice (and in
effect violence) to a state sanctioned institution. (Unfortunately,
state sanctioned justice usually doesn't involve the cutting off of a
person's weewee).
AG
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