November 8, 2003

  • I got two other eye comments!  I'm probably making a ridiculously big deal out of it, but it's one of the only things that is boosting my self-worth right now.  At least that I can perceive.  Maybe I'm just really dense, and not attuned to my surroundings.  See, more negativity.


    I failed to mention that I went to proxy a couple of King Law School classes on Thursday.  I attended a Contracts course and a Criminal Law course.  Really interesting.  I miss the classroom environment, the analysis, the thinking, and productivity.  I feel like I picked up on the lecture right away, although I didn't do the reading.


    In the Criminal Law course, a question was posed by the professor that was a real brain tease.  It was set up by this scenario.  People claim that all lives are equally valuable in the eyes of the law.  Murder is a violent crime that is punishable by law.  However, in an instance of self-defense, if, in the act of defending oneself, or another, and a murder should occur, it would not be a crime.  It makes sense right?  Here is the twist.  If it is okay to kill a man who is attacking you, then his life must not be as valuable as someone who is not attacking you.  I never saw it in that way.  I always thought that self-defense was simply a natural reaction in order for one to survive.  Yet, even in the eyes of the law, where murder is a crime, murder for the sake of self defense is not.