In Reply to: The arrest has been reported in the press. posted by tinear on February 18, 2009 at 15:06:20:
when someone is burgling his house, it is generally under the cover of darkness, and he would not wait around to find out if the burgler had a gun, and intended to use it. If you had small children in your house, while it may be noble for someone to risk their own life at the expense of a burgler who may not have a gun, I cannot see the nobility of placing a child's in harms way to satisfy pacifism. As between the burglar, who most certainly realizes the risks of his enterprise, and an innocent child, whom the parent undertook to protect when they bore the child, I'd say the child should be given the benefit of the doubt.
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