RUSTYGUNNER WROTE:
@LBS — That’s a tough one. I’m not terribly sympathetic to DH’s position, both because it devalues your lives to place them on an equal footing with a predator who would harm or kill you, and because it hamstrings the ability of a loved one to fend off the attack. I have nothing against pacifists, mind you. Pacifists are great people, you meet them in some of the nicest mass graves in the world. I do object, however, to the mindset that can say, “I love you, but I love your attacker more, and if that attacker forces a choice between your life and his, I choose his.”
Sorry if that’s harsh, but that’s what he is saying, even if he doesn’t realize it.
This guy gets it correct. The pacifist is a moral coward. He won’t even take life to defend his family. If he wants to give his life up for nothing that is his prerogative but as a husband and father he has an obligation to defend his family and his physical condition dictates he can’t do in mano-mano.
Further he is perfectly willing to call on another man to take life if need be to maintain his self-righteous piety. This woman needs to find a man who really loves her, he doesn’t.