[ RadSafe ] RE: [AMRSO] On This Day( NY Times) - Observation of Moment of Silence

[davidhelton1 at bellsouth.net]

Sometimes one crime does justify another crime. Two examples follow:

1.	Your house is being broken in to. It is legal to use force to stop the entry, including deadly force which results in murder. The crime is breaking and entry, the other crime is murder. When someone is breading and entering you have no idea what there intent is including to murder your whole family.
2.	You are engaged in battle, such as Vietnam, and many US troops are going to die unless the Vietcong are killed (they have mortars). The Vietcong are among many Vietnamese civilians. Do you take a chance on killing a few civilians during the combat or retreat with many US soldiers dying during the retreat due to mortar fire and the Vietcong getting away free? Do you accept possibly killing a few civilians’ verses the possibility of the Vietcong killing many US troops?

For item 1, I, and a lot of people like me, own a semi-automatic high powered pistol which is by my bed in case of need for home and personnel protection. Since I have no idea what there intent is on entering or if they armed and if so with what, I believe in the use of deadly force, which means I would shoot with the intent to kill.


> From: Peter Bossew <peter.bossew at jrc.it>
> Date: 2007/08/09 Thu AM 09:42:17 EST
> To: radsafe at radlab.nl
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] RE: [AMRSO] On This Day( NY Times) - Observation
> 	of	Moment of Silence
> 
> One crime does not justify another.
> 
> pb
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> Jacobus, John (NIH/OD/ORS) [E] wrote:
> > Should we offer a moment of silence for all those Chinese and Asian
> > civilians killed by the Japanese?
> >  
> >
> > -- John
> > John P. Jacobus, MS, CHP
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> > ________________________________
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> > 	From: Johnston, Thomas [mailto:Tom_Johnston at nymc.edu] 
> > 	Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 8:55 AM
> > 	To: Academic-Medical Radiation Safety Officers listserve;
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> > 	Subject: [AMRSO] On This Day( NY Times) - Observation of Moment
> > of Silence
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> > 	
> >
> > 	Hello Everyone,
> >
> > 	 
> >
> > 	On This Day - NY Times
> >
> > 	On Aug. 9, 1945, the United States exploded a nuclear device
> > over Nagasaki, Japan, instantly killing an estimated 39,000 people. 
> >
> > 	The explosion came three days after the atomic bombing of
> > Hiroshima.
> >
> > 	 
> >
> > 	May we all observe a moment of silence.
> >
> > 	 
> >
> > 	Tom
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> > 	 
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