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To: Dayuhan who wrote (37914)	5/11/1999 12:31:00 AM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 108807

Murder is not the same as killing. In many circumstances an individual has a right -- even a duty to kill. Killing is necessary sometimes in the protection of individual rights. Murder is never a protection of a right, but a violation of a right. I do hope I am making myself clear. I need to go to bed soon. I don't remember what time zone you are in, but I have to get up in about 5 hours.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (37914)	5/11/1999 3:04:00 AM
From: E	Respond to of 108807

<<<Truths we all accept: We don't have the right to kill people. We do have the right to kill in self defense. >>> But you know, even those aren't truths everyone accepts! There are absolutist pacifists who don't think killing is justified even in self defense, and would die before they would kill. I have known a few. My husband used to be one, when he was a kid. He grew up, of course. But he was such an absolutist pacifist when he was 18 that he wouldn't even cooperate with the draft, which still existed then, and wrote a letter to his draft board telling them he refused to register or cooperate in any way at all. He was arrested, as he knew he would be, and sentenced to two years in prison. Served nine months.