richardhutnik said:
Stand your ground law, that is at work in the Martin-Zimmerman case, can claim this to be so. People claiming self-defense end up saying they acted preemptively, to defend themself or get "justice". It is interesting to find out if more evil has been done in the name of "righteousness" than it had been by selfish reasoning. |
Well, the nazis killed people in order to defend the master race. Genghis Khan could probably claim self-defence for his invasion of China, and he definitely had a case against the Khwarezmian Empire. I don't think many of the worlds greatest conquerors and evil doers thought they did something bad. They had a "good" reason for doing what they did.
I don't know every detail of the Zimmerman case but that law does sound scary and easy to abuse.
