Thanks for the sermon.
Funny how I didn't need one or any aid in being able to recognize how unloving it is to force sex on a partner but hey, thanks anyway!
Love can be more than, but it is never less than, respecting people's rights. Disrespecting rights is disrespecting people. And it is unloving.
But murderers aren't exactly the same kind of unloving as rapists and car thieves. The law acknowledges the evil, and it handles it according to something like the lasting damage done by the crime. As far as I'm concerned, the crime is first defined through it being a rights violation of some kind though, not whether someone experienced harm or loss (which can occur from bad weather, or by someone's non-negligent accident). Then when we acknowledge that rape is a rights violation, we have to judge how severe a crime it is, even though with some cases of rape there is no physical damage (such as in a perjury crime where there is no physical bodily harm done), we still handle the crime as if it is very severe indeed.
But murderers do end a life.
But then in 1775 a 38 year old Patrick Henry said, "Give me liberty, or give me death." But liberty then meant exactly what 1776's Declaration of Independence expressed in prose, it is a 'shorthand' for, '[All men are created equal and Endowed with rights],' the American moral theory. He was saying this is worth fighting a war over. Our morals is worth sacrificing myself. Our servicemen over the 24 decades of our country's independence (23 with our current written Constitution) are the giants upon whose shoulders we Americans stand. Our current armed forces are their successors. If you want peace prepare for war. Peace is what we all want. Where there is no justice there is no peace. Our right to self govern comes from us being responsible for justice. If justice is not honored then we are failing, but to protect justice you need peace, and for peace you need guns.
This is just all because we have an inbuilt right to govern ourselves, because we are all each of us responsible for justice. If the current arrangement or state of affairs or political situation is not defending justice, then we become culpable ourselves unless we do something to stop it. Up to and including violent (guns) rebellion.
But largely, the right to bear arms can't be seriously restricted because every woman who's a rapist's target ought to have had the ability to arm herself and well, before he ever showed up. All she has to do to start is learn how to shoot into the ocean, that's the only marksmanship she need worry about at first. The ocean is that way, so don't shoot in the opposite direction, for starters.
You might have to shoot a rapist between the eyes, that's possible, but hopefully all you'd really need to do, is to shoot into the ocean, which isn't that hard to do. You just have to shoot in the right direction generally and it'll get in the ocean. You just have to get away safely and if you run away blasting shots backward (shooting into the ocean) then he hopefully just won't follow you. If one of those shots happens to hit him between the eyes then he's going to die.
That's the most severe harm possible. But again as far as I'm concerned you first determine what is the rights violation? then look at any damages. You don't start with damages when determining whether there's a crime, you start with rights, and whether they've been broken.
Love doesn't always look stereotypical. Sometimes love is a bald faced lie. Sometimes love is an accidental shooting of an innocent child, because a rapist's victim pulled a gun out and ran away from him firing wildly backward, not hitting the rapist, but accidentally killing an innocent and non-participating child. That's love on the part of the victim defending herself and trying to get away from a rapist, she's loving herself. It's also love whoever permitted her to get and carry that gun. And it's love for the gun dealer to outfit her with a good quality gun that she is comfortable shooting into the ocean at least.
If you can run away and fire a gun back into the ocean, that's not nothing. That can be good enough. If the pursuing rapist stops pursuing, then his victim has successfully defended herself. If she kills him, that's just self defense, a justified killing. That word justice is in there, that's part of protecting justice, is protecting the right to bear arms, so that a rapist's victim target shoots him dead in a justified killing, instead of her getting raped.
That's love. Not the rapist, he's not loving, but every other party in honoring the right to bear arms is being loving.
