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Topic: A victim's deliberate use of deadly force is a just response to repeated domestic violence.

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Opinion #1
Debater: Stef
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The point of the title is whether or not someone should be allowed to deliberatly kill someone who has repeatedly abused them. Not whether someone should be allowed to kill someone threatening to kill them. That would be self defence and very few people would be agaist that.
Murder is murder and deliberate use of deadly force is just that. The person being abused could have gone to the police, left the abuser, or any number of options. The offender deserves justice, a trail, not a snap second, trail jury and execution.
That is the mark of a civilised society. The argument that "anyone should be allowed to use deadly force in response to any potential threat to their physical safety" is obscene veritas, sorry thats the way I see it.Its basicly saying "someone threatens to hurt you, its ok to kill them".
The only instance where deadly force is justified is when protecting yourself from deadly force. And that wasnt the question.
Opinion #2
Debater: gatadebater
the question of justice
What exactly is a "just" response to repeated domestic violence? Don't forget that the victim at hand is not only a victim of a crime, but repeated crimes. Why repeated? Some studies indicate that domestic violence tends to escalate and repeat over time, when there is no effective intervention from the criminal justice system or other institutions. when the justice system fails to protect/is ineffective, (has any1 seen the movie Enough lol if you get what I'm talkin about) then the victim must defend themself. When the justice system cannot/fails to protect them, and when the victim strikes at their abuser without deadly force--thus the abuser lives---the abuser will continue to abuse, if not even WORSE than before and more angered. There is no stopping the abuser, who continues to harm the victim. What is the victim to do? How can it be helped? The just thing to do is to stop the repeated violence. Using deliberate deadly force--the only way--is THE just response
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