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To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (1560)	9/30/2002 12:40:42 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 7689

The most difficult part of morality is WHEN is self defense self defense? Those without the concept of human rights may always strike first with impunity. The moral person or state is always put in the position of risk, because they dare not INITIATE harm against another--at risk of their own moral code of respect for human life. It is the most difficult of human dilemmas; for when can the taking of life be justified by suspicion?? Very difficult. But one must choose to act or to respond. How does one measure the sense of feeling or being threatened? I believe that there is sufficient evidence to show that self preservation requires some pre-emptive action in this case. Sometimes being alive and being right are fundamentally similar. Intelligence should dictate. In the aftermath...intelligence must pass the assessment of reasonable people. It always comes down to this in questions of justice...what would a reasonable person do in possession of all the facts??