Justifiable?

[lovelyivy84]

Originally posted by RedefinedDiva

What's the difference between killing someone outside trying to steal your car as compared to someone in your home? NOTHING. Why? Because you are still killing.

NO it is not at all the same thing. It is the difference between shooting someone to save a thing and shooting to save your life. If you don't see the difference between a life and a material posession then I can't begin to explain it to you.


In either case, you still have to ask for forgiveness from the Lord. That's personal between that man and God.

Well when you kill someone else it is also between that man and the family of the deceased, the friends of the deceased, and anyone that that person's life ever touched. It also becomes a matter of law.

What right does the murderer have to take this man's life? Yes he was stealing a car, but that does not give you or any of us the right to say that his life was not worth more than a CAR. The only person who can say that that man's life was worth less than yours and mine is God, and I am not comfortable having anybody on the street feeling that they are capable of making that distinction in his place.

What would you be saying if in shooting at the thief he had hit a passer-by? It is essentially the same situation. Who can judge between the life of the passer-by and the life of the thief? One was an innocent, but life is life. Only God can judge between them.

Of all the people in here that say that they would not have shot at the man, who has actually been a victim of crime? If you have been , why would you have reacted differently than this man?

I have been a victim of a number of crimes, lol. I was born and raised in NYC! I have been stalked, and my house has been robbed TWICE. Would I wish DEATH on any of those people? NO! I am not equipped to judge whether they deserve to die for wanting my tv. I would want them in JAIL. I would want them to suffer JUSTICE as mandated by our court system, not by the subjective morality of the man on the street.

I would also want my stuff back, lol.