#if things were worse I could have been disabled instead of injured with an assumption of recovery

[tourmelion]

Yeah

People can still deserve to be taken out of the equation

Without heat or emotion, some people are just generally dangerous and should be gotten rid of if no other avenues are available

Just, logically the damage they do is too much to be able to justify keeping them alive just to have them commit acts of intense cruelty

That being said, we can never be too sure we got the right mark, jail can be reversed upon finding that person was innocent

Death cannot be

Only when other options are unavailable is it justifiable to use deadly force against a dangerous individual

When Indian police officers took the gloves off and started using deadly force against terrorists when they were also shooting at the police when they attempted to arrest them, those officers sustained less casualties and was able to neutralize the threat

( cops are still corrupt but it is still bad when they die cause they aren't empowered to use more force against armed nut jobs )

Killing someone who was attempting to kill you or severely maim/r*pe you is self defense, that's justifiable cause you can't justify the cost of them not being fought against and there aren't really other options

Of course there's always a worry of people taking advantage of these circumstances ( they do it anyway, it's just normal murder, which is when we rely on the law to find out whether it was in defense or not )

But the base morality still stands, sometimes it's just not practical, it's not pretty by any means, and it shouldn't devolve to that choice in our society, but it can, and people shouldn't overthink and make themselves miserable when fighting off the generally dangerous to save their own lives and skin and the lives and skin of others

Border control needed to kill back when a group of soldiers broke into their side of the border and started killing

When no one will stop the child rapist or murderer you have to defend yourself and the people around you

Reason can dictate it's the best option

And true that people do unjustly kill just for their own sick pleasure, but they hardly are willing to stop just cause reasonable people won't

If you've been in a situation where such extreme action feels like the only way out and you're pushed to it to save yourself or those around you don't let it burn you up inside, the action is inherently dark and upsetting but you had reasons to

My family are survivors from a genocide, they shouldn't feel bad for taking down a terrorist, or someone coming around to kidnap their daughters or any person they felt like snatching

Intense times can call for intense measures, in situations like that don't let yourself be handicapped

Don't make yourself completely powerless if you know you can do something

When the law fails you or cannot intervene don't get caught up in the titles and visuals of the matter

Think about why you did it, fall back on that and let that calm the issue, it's important to question and reflect, and to recognize if you did the wrong thing, but do that with reason, don't just hate yourself cause you were pushed that far

If you were raised or got caught up in a gang and had to to live, if you wanted to kill the guy who killed your family or friends, if you did it to help a person escape from trafficking or you were trafficked and that was the only way out or to get justice, if someone tortured you for fun and you couldn't call for help

Fall back on the reason why, get peace from you attempting to pick apart your reasoning and having it stand through it, having you question your reason and being able to answer them, being able to genuinely justify it cause you do ask yourself and you can make a response, one that you can pick apart and bring to it's end, to it's logical conclusion

Being able to wade through all the mess with reason, questioning, picking apart, so you can get closer to the truth, to find the truth

Don't just get disheartened and upset with yourself just because of a surface level title slapped onto what was done

Your truths are more nuanced than that and deserve to be met with proper consideration

All of ours are

Btw

Some of my tags outline my experiences

They are kinda disturbing

Outlining my poor treatment a little

Read at your own risk

I'm fine-ish now though so don't worry

I'll be alright

re: that last post, ive said it before and ill say it again: no one deserves to die (deserving is fake and death is bad) but some people need to be stopped and choose to make death the only way to stop them