Man, 65, shoots motorcyclist in road rage incident

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106. Yes they are also contrastable

Again, their having contrasts doesn't mean they can't be compared for similarities too. Comparing and contrasting exists, it is not that we can't talk about two incidents together unless they are identical.

The similarities has to do with when a reasonable person should feel they have enough reason to use deadly force, a weapon. That does not mean we have to come to the same conclusion for both cases. We could think one had enough reason and the other didn't due to the differences. But that doesn't mean it's not the same issue. We couldn't have a legal system at all if we always had to find in favor of one side due to a rigid interpretation.

It's like all those threads where we have no choice apparently but to believe the police are always in the wrong and protestors never are. Someone wants to impose a single standard on us - the protestor is always right and the cop is always wrong. The shooter is always right (in self defense) and the one shot always in the wrong, or vice versa depending on the one who would put that rigid either/or standard upon us.