Reply #50: The right to not be deprived of life without due process goes both ways

[tburnsten]

And if someone is trying to deprive you of your life for their own gain, why should you just go along with it? Do you consider saving your own life at the expense of your attacker's depriving them of life without due process? Last I checked, the constitution is a list of protections for individual citizens rights against encroachment by the government. It is a list of things the government has no right to do, not a list of things individuals must abide by in their personal interactions. Killing someone who is attempting to cause grievous bodily harm to yourself or others is hardly depriving them of life without "due process", since individuals are not courts, they are not government bodies, they don't have the luxury of giving their attacker a trial.