So in response to her attack on others who supposedly lack “moral courage,” I asked her if she had it.”
It's actually a good question. Any answer other than “yes” means that deep down one knows they don't have the moral right to make that choice.
It isn't a matter of lack of courage to eschew vigilanteism, it is a matter of understanding that we as individuals do not have the moral right to take another human being's life, regardless of what they have done.
Everyone who is pro-life was relieved that Tiller was gone, but no one, IMO, looking to a Righteous God for guidance is going to conclude that shooting a man in cold blood was the righteous thing to do.
Some of us believe there is a moral right to put a stop to the mass murder of innocents. We are simply too cowardly to do it. We don’t want to be dragged out of our nice, warm homes away from our families and friends, put on trial, and then executed or imprisoned for decades.
Our revolutionary ancestors risked their lives, their families’ lives, their wealth, their future, everything, for a moral right to freedom from tyranny and the opportunity for LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They fought, bled and died for it. Now we whine about not breaking man’s laws created by a statist cabal of tyrannical, elitist politicians who empty our pockets and impose themselves through their laws into the most intimate aspects of our lives. That is not what we signed up for.
How long will people continue to respect the laws of such tyrants and the sycophantic, bloodsucking parasites they breed for their bureaucracies?
Moral right transcends man’s law. If it didn’t, we wouldn’t be here.