Frankly I find it barbaric and think it should be abolished

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    So someone who is abused is the real aggressor if they finally end the abuse by ending the abuser? I certainly don’t think so.

    The fault is society for allowing the situation to get to that point. Desperate people do desperate things. Its foolish and cruel to look down on your pedestal and declare life is black and white and a person who takes a life never has a reason.

    There are times when it is horrible but not acknowledging the complexity is exactly how you get people who look the other way when the killing is obscure in a system of policies. Say how we kill thousands a year through poverty or homelessness. Those deaths are not seen as horrible because it’s slow and painful, instead of quick and painful. Maybe you will come back and say you don’t feel this way but such quick snap judgment without analysis is exactly how we get here.

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      It would be nice if self defense often meant an abused person ending their abuser, but what it usually looks like is shooting minorities.

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        You are conflating a lot here.

        This goes back to what I was saying ironically. The issue you are saying here is still a failure of society. Obviously someone killing a minority because they are a minority is not a act of self defense.