Al-Q Honcho Hit

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Jordan:
> It's not judicious anything.  The use of lethal force as 
> self-defense is only justified (in the US, at least: stay on 
> topic) when (among other
> things) NO OTHER MEANS ARE AVAILABLE to avoid the felony.
> 
> The US was not at all in the situation of being about to be 
> raped by those guys.  Don't kid yourself.  And don't belittle 
> rape victims while you're kidding yourself.

The fact that I used a poor metaphor does not invalidate the point that
I was making - that use os force in unavoidable, and the point is to use
it judiciously.  Western thought does not seem to deal with this issue
well - it oscillates between the turn-the-other-cheek pacifism, which
like prohibition, not a very realistic stance, and cheerleading of going
ballistic - which borders on genocide.  

Wojtek