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From: del@wuphys.UUCP (Dave de Lake)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: How to get my Goetz, or, don't s
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Date: Fri, 25-Jan-85 22:53:34 EST
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> >	It's probably pretty hard to think clearly when you are
> >	probably about to get threatened by four guys on the
> >	subway.
> ------------
> Are you really comfortable with the idea that "probably about to
> get threatened" is adequate justification for deadly force?  How do
> you feel about pre-emptive nuclear attacks, for instance...
> 

If I thought that four guys on the subway were about to launch a
pre-emptive nuclear attack against me personally, I probably wouldn't
be able to think to clearly.  If I was fairly certain that this was
their intention, then I might even shoot them.

The situation is not at all analogous....

					Dave
					@Compton Sanitarium
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