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Murder is not a case of legitimate self-defense.

• ceejayoz 2y ago
  What’s lawful varies, in both time and jurisdiction. I’m glad our current setup lets people unilaterally end a marriage, thus presenting much better options for self-defense than battered spouses in medieval Italy.
  • cubefox 2y ago
    All the same, it doesn't and didn't justify murder.
    • ceejayoz 2y ago
      Sure it does. Even in the modern justice system it’s at least a mitigating circumstance, and that’s with people having the right to leave.
      • cubefox 2y ago
        It doesn't justify it morally. (And it was illegal then and is now.)
        • ceejayoz 2y ago
          Is being stuck as the property of an abusive spouse with no legal recourse moral? What’s the moral choice for someone with zero 100% moral options? Legal and moral aren’t the same. The Holocaust was legal under German law at the time; French partisans offing Nazis was illegal.