Re: The difference between being coerced and coercing
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From another thread:
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What is the difference between your child tripping outside and being impaled on a knife and dying... and me charging at your child with a knife and stabbing her to death?
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I see none.
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The reason this person sees none is that he is only looking at one narrow aspect:
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In both instances my child would be dead, I would be sad, and I would remove the hazard after the fact (too late for my child, but hopefully in time to save others from the same fate).
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In other words, he is only observing that someone died.
He is totally ignoring that in one case someone *acted* and the other one didn't.
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At risk of a brief threadjacking, at what point would it be okay for me to intervene? Remember that your right to wield a knife in a manner I (but perhaps not somebody else) considers intimidating is absolute. So is your right to charge toward my child.
How can I do anything other than what I describe above, whilst still behaving within the constraints of "AC morality"?
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