QuoteFor those of you who say that life isn't a test, think about it some more, I didn't mean the traditional test, but the everyday one we put on ourselves and others
exactly Luana, you see it the same way I do. All of life is a test of who and what we are, how we react to situations, what we do, good or bad and what we learn and do about our mistakes. It is all about how we deal with our ethics and morality, and when we fail in a particular case, what we learn about ourselves and our relations and if we take responsibility and correct the problem within ourselves or not.
If you pass, or work out what we fail in, we are happier people, if we keep failing in the same areas, we will be miserable. sometimes failures are needed to wake one up to seemingly "small" problems which put to gether in the right circumstances can become huge problems that one must go back to work on the smaller problems in order to correct the larger one. If you can do that, then a "pass is achieved"
Quotei'm not a pacifist. I WILL shoot you if you try to hurt me. But I will shoot your knee or other non vital area.
Hah, I understand you are trying to draw a difference in self defense and killing, but I can tell you that in any extream situation with little or no time, you do not take chances on missing while trying to hit a specific point that will disable but not kill. Consider what happens all to often in real such situations, you wound someone and they continue to fire back and get one in you INTENDED to kill and there you go. No,.... you aim center mass, to give the largest possible target. I was trained to put one round center mass which if body armor is worn will weaken the underlying plate, then place another round in the same place to penitrate the weakend plate and then go one to the forhead in case the plate was not penitrated, 3 rounds per person, more only if necessary, but never less. or if no body armor was worn, the person may still be functional, and if you don't intend to kill, then you just hope that no vital areas are hit, but that leaves them dangerous, but in essance you shoot to kill or do not shoot at all, to do otherwise is to end up under the grass rather then on it. just a simple fact of the jungle.
It is a terrible thing though and I would wish such things didn't have to happen, but we all know better, that don't stop me from wishing it were possible to simply outrun a bullet rather then return one. I know though that I'm fast and durable, but not that fast and not that durable.
QuoteI believe in redemption and that everyone has a spark, no matter how small, of good in them. If I kill someone, that chance of redemption is gone.
Yes, there are people that can never be redeemed, but most, especially if they have a good core, will redeam themselves if given a chance. as far as redemption beling lost if a person is killed, well, sorry, but I'd rather have my own chance at redemption then someone who was trying to take me out. and redemption for them is still possible, its in the hands of his maker at that point.
Quotemy life is not worth that of another
That depends on who they are and if your talking to me or someone else. My life is worth much more to myself then that of someone who puts thiers above mine.
Terri