Posted on 10/31/2015 5:41:18 PM PDT by SteveinSATX
What you just did was explain the value of Situational Ethics.
Everything seems to “depend on the situation” because “it’s not that simple”.
No thanks.
“I think these questions go back to whether the right to defend oneself supersede property rights. The right of a property owner to control what happens on his property?”
Pretty much. In general I think of it as a conflict of rights (or a conflict of asserted rights which may or may not be really held) which in this discussion involves property rights.
But the situation is important.
If you kill me because you don’t like my face it’s murder on your part.
If you kill me because I’m trying to kill you because I don’t like your face it’s not murder but justifiable homicide.
Either way I’m dead, but whether it’s murder or justifiable homicide depends on the situation in which I got dead.
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