Yeah, troll, sure I'd kill to protect my family...or someone else's...if it was (or appeared to be) the only feasible response to the situation. Executing people who are already safely behind bars is not the only feasible response to that situation.

You see, there is no moral behavioral law that you can set down in stone (at least I don't think there is) which will infallibly cover ALL given situations.

Such laws are general guidelines, that's all. You still have to measure each circumstance according to its own merits and use your own intelligence to decide what to do about it. Lazy people don't want to be bothered thinking, so they just get someone else to do their thinking for them, write down a law for them to follow, and then they obey it like robots. That's what you generally see happening in both civil law and organized religion.

Ted - People are worried about murderers because murder is unusual and makes a spectacular news story. People habitually worry about dramatic stuff that will probably never happen to them, while ignoring the ordinary boring stuff that they ruin their health with every day. It's one of the humorous aspects of human psychology.

- LH