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In reply to the discussion: Conn. man kills masked boy, finds out it's his son [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)Under the right circumstances, almost any of us MIGHT do a lot of things that'd be a problem of one degree or another if we got away with whatever. Shall we just detain people for what they might do, or shall we just go ahead and execute them, whenever there's an opportunity for plausible deniability?
I expect people are pretty comfortable with killing others for what they might do, because if it were otherwise, the war on an innocent and sovereign nation, known as Iraq, which killed some 5K innocent American soldiers and some 100K even MORE innocent Iraqis, would not have happened.
If it is established that the boy actually was somekind of direct mortal threat, there's still the question about a knife relative to a gun, but at least that kind of information could establish that, in this instance, it was more than what he MIGHT do.