Father who beat to death man he caught raping his five-year-old daughter will NOT face charges

[Yo_Mama]

93. You can kill someone with one punch

I'm glad you are not criticizing this man, who was placed in an impossible situation and clearly suffers for it.

I still think you are being unrealistic in assuming that this was a prolonged beatdown.

The problem is that if you are a lone person having to deal with something like this that you have to move in very aggressively and really knock the guy down before you can know that the situation is under control and can attend to your daughter. It is not possible for the average civilian to do this safely. Perhaps someone very well trained could do it. However police seem to have the training and often don't seem to be able to use force safely.

Don't forget that the guy also had to worry about his daughter, who it is reasonable to suppose had suffered significant physical damage.

To be very blunt, if you have to take the chance of killing the guy to end the danger to yourself and your daughter, that's the only ethical thing to do. And if you are worrying more about not hurting the perp too much than about ending the threat to your daughter and yourself, you are an idiot, ethically and pragmatically.

I would certainly hope that any DUer would move in to defend a child and use the necessary force in such a situation, even if that did imply a good chance of causing long-term physical damage or killing the perp. In such a situation, the criminal is the one who is responsible for that damage or that death, not the person trying to defend a child.

So I agree with the posters who are saying that they would do the same thing. I don't see how anyone could do otherwise, ethically. Death was not intended here - defense was intended.

I don't think anyone, including you, has the right to be ethically censorious towards a person who is placed in this situation through no fault of his or her own.

I am sorry that the perpetrator died on the father's account, but I do not think any trace of blame can fairly be attached to the father.

If it were me, I'd have moved in and tried to slug the perp in the back of his neck just as hard as I could. I'd be trying to really, really hurt the guy, because I am not an MMA fighter and the life of child could well depend on my getting the upper hand ASAP.

I wouldn't have the option not to try to really hurt the guy. The average male probably wouldn't either. Your surreal assumption that this guy had the option to do differently is just unrealistic.