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To: M. Murray who wrote (421329)	10/20/2019 9:39:24 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 541299

Totally agree - there are so many scenarios - hell I got a spanking because, apparently, as a toddler I thought my mom's reaction to running out into traffic was "funny" - she almost never physically punished me. What was the greater harm here? The spanking or the running into traffic? Immediacy and association to the causative event are essential. And I doubt she had a lot of time to consider other options. Should she have waited until she got home? There is no right or wrong other than preventing the child's death. I'm glad I didn't have that happen with my own kids. I'm lucky to be here today to consider that as a philosophical question. Same with other things where life endangerment is a possibility.