CDR: Re: "Needs killing"

[Jim Choate]

On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Tim May wrote:

> At 10:36 AM -0800 11/24/00, Ray Dillinger wrote:
> >
> >The "Needs Killing" verbiage you see here, I think, is mostly from
> >people who, correctly or not, tend to think in terms either of there
> >not being any governments, or in terms of the government being so
> >ineffective that they are effectively in an ungoverned state.
> >
> 
> No, you're still not up on the past traffic on this list. Which makes 
> having you be an _interpreter_ all the more strange.
> 
> Saying "Gun grabbers need killing" is a statement about what is 
> moral. It doesn't depend on whether government is effective or not, 
> or whether it exists or not.

No it's actualy an over-blown generalization with little if any
application to the real world.

If ANY 'gun grabber' deserves to be killed then self-defence is not
justifiable. After all, you're just trying to 'grab' the gun of your
assailant. So much for your 'moral'.

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