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To: Tom C who wrote (4586)	3/24/2002 6:32:39 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

<<You're not suggesting that the rule of law can be dismissed based on situational ethics, are you?>> Eyep, so what's your point? They guy was drunk, had a loaded Uzi and I'd be making the call 10' away from him. The "situational ethics" was that suicide is against the law and Ish wasn't going that route. Here's one on situational ethics. I was a partner in a 400 acre duck hunting club. One day I as down there working and a guy showed up to hunt late in the day. 30 minutes left in the shooting time. After 15 minutes I realized I hadn't signed in on the Federal Kill Register and unloaded my gun without firing a shot. When I got back to town I called the federal warden and reported myself.

To: Tom C who wrote (4586)	3/24/2002 8:22:11 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 21057

Eeyep. My wife and I were just walking in downtown Palo Alto, a tony (low end house, $1,000,000+) town near here. We're walking on a side street and a woman with a dog walks by a bus shelter in front of us. This guy in the shelter gets up and starts screaming and yelling at her - "People don't like big dogs no more, they're bad, what are doing with that that thing?" (The dog was well behaved and under very good control.) We walk by him and and he screams and yells at us too. He's got a can of beer in his hand and there are a number of empties around him. We walk to the corner, turn towards the main street, and walk back to where we saw a couple of cops eating earlier and report him. They radio the report to the police station. Now ordinarily- -say if he had just been quietly sipping a beer and leaving people alone- -we would not do that. Why did we report him? Because with a bit more alcohol, or the wrong trigger, he very well could get violent and hurt someone. Better to let the cops stop trouble before it starts. Is this situational ethics? If so, I plead guilty.