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Originally Posted by Baylorattorney
Why else carry if not to defend yourself and others from deadly attack? Of course you defend a stranger, if that stranger is being assaulted by an attacker who intends to kill him or her.
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Yeah, but how do you KNOW? I mean know as in life and death, lose everything you own, go to jail, lose your reputation kind of "know".
How often would you "know" what's happening between two strangers? Yes, there are lots of scenarios we can all invent where we would know. Real life isn't that clean.
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On the "moral obligation" issue... I have no moral obligation to get killed for a stranger. My moral obligation is to my wife and kids. They're the only people I've promised anything.
Let's say this "intervention" doesn't go quite as "Superhero-ish" in the real world as we picture it in our Internet imaginations.... and we get killed during our "moral obligation" to help this stranger....
Who has the moral obligation to take care of my family?