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Pastimes : The Boxing Ring Revived -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (4740)	2/22/2003 9:15:05 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

If he had stolen from me, and we lived in a state of anarchy, would it be right for me to break in to his place and take my stuff back even if my neighbors don't want me to do it? Yes. If I was the only damaged party (say he was piping the music in to my room somehow) I would have a right to defend myself. Yes. If he is also harming everyone else why does that take away my right to stop the harm and or threat to me? As I said earlier, this is not about rights. It's about being respectful of others and their interests, as well. You certainly have the right in that there's nothing to stop you. I would disapprove of your exercising it so cavalierly, however. When the threat is to someone else or the threat is shared, I think it's extraordinarly disrespectful of others to co-opt their options. Let's try the example of Jewel's friend, the one who got the phone call. You could probably tell from what I said that I thought he should probably report the incident despite his fear. But I was sincerely differential to that being his call, not mine. I didn't label him a wimp. (Or use the q-word, perish the thought. <g> ) And I certainly didn't take matters into my own hands and pick up the phone and call the FBI. It's not my place to do that. It's not my decision to make. It's not my cat, so to speak. My interests are affected in relatively minor ways by his decision.