Samoht

Is sexual desire biological or psychological or is it a combination of the two? Why would any of the three matter when looking at the situation from an objectively moral point of view? It is moral for everyone to pursue life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness so long as it does not involve coercion. If a person needs another person in his/her life to be able to experience happiness, and everyone directly involved is consenting, then nothing else matters. It is a moral relationship. Or have I missed something?

Is the use of booby traps with purposefully deadly force to protect one's property moral? Police are not the only issue, although booby traps are illegal for their protection also. If there is an accident (i.e. smoking in bed, short in a wire, lighting strike) and the house catches on fire firemen do not need a warrant to enter your property to put out the fire. Do you have the right to refuse help in a fire? Fires spread. The fire department has the moral obligation to protect their neighborhood and their own homes by preventing the spread of the fire by entering the property and putting out the fire. Booby traps, especially fatal booby traps, then become a form of aggression against individuals who are exercising their moral right of self-preservation and defense. What if the house is located in the middle of a rural area where there are not any other homes? Woods burn and small fires become as big as small states. Booby traps are not moral because they as damaging to those who are trying to preserve life as they are against those who are trying to take life.

Yes, the farmer's name is Tony Martin. I agree with you completely, I just wanted to make sure that you knew the rest of the sword story since it just now came out. On a personal note, I used to know a girl online who lived in Britain. She was a tiny (at least she claimed to be, but this is the internet) five feet something tall lesbian who had a neo-Nazi move in next to her and her girlfriend. My advice to her after an assault by this guy was to get a weapon for personal defense. The rest of the people on the board attacked me for believing that she had the right to defend herself from a Nazi. Their stance was that fighting back would make matters worse. The police refused to help (not enough man power), and she refused to even get a baseball bat for defense out of fear of being arrested. She had a friend who was arrested after using a baseball bat against a home invader. The debate over my comment of a person's right to self-defense went on after the girl stopped posting. After three years of daily posting she stopped soon after receiving a death threat from the Nazi. I am very glad that I live in a right to carry state in America where people are not arrested for defending themselves from killers.

Oldsalt, I was angry at that story also, however some new information has come out since the first article. If you go here http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/lancashi...09/NEWS7ZM.html it details how the man with the sword was a drug dealer. The incident may have been a drug deal resulting in a death and not a break in. Of course the man was arrested for murder before the police knew this but if you bring up this incident without all of the facts you might lose an argument.