Laurens
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thenexttodie said:Whenever a criminal forces a victim into a situation where lethal force is a legal option, justice would demand that said criminal would receive the same penalty as the victim would receive if wrongfully convicted of murder.
I am sure that you are smart enough to understand why.
I fail to see where you are going with this...
Whenever a person is intentionally killed, it is either rightfully or wrongfully so. Would you agree with that?
I don't think intentionally killing someone is ever necessarily right, at least not in civilian life. You might be able to show me an example of it being right, but I can't think of anything.
If you kill someone in self defence, I don't think it is wrong, but it is not intentional. In order for it to be legitimate self defence it has to be the only option. Self defence is doing what you can in order to make sure you're safe. The intentions of someone defending themselves should be to do what they can to ensure their safety, the intention should not be to kill necessarily. If you kill them it is a by product of the intention to stay safe.
If you ever point a weapon at someone, with the intent to kill, and you kill them for that purpose alone in my opinion you have done wrong.