Your right to life is not separated from your right to defend that life.

[TheMercenary]

My rights have nothing to do with the other persons rights. Once another person makes a decision to put my life in danger, i.e. killing or harming me, it matters not to me what their rights are, my rights, at that single point, trump theirs. Someone is going to survive and it will be me. Otherwise you are just a piece of meat for the grinder of predators and criminals. I will not stand for that. The moment the other person makes the decision to do me harm they lose their right to life in my mind. No conflict there. They had a right, they lost it.

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

... The moment the other person makes the decision to do me harm they lose their right to life in my mind. No conflict there. They had a right, they lost it.

I'm not exercising my right to kill in self defense. I'm just giving my attacker the maximum opportunity to exercise his right to commit suicide.*

Inspired by the soldier's motto:

*It's not my job to die for my country. My job is to give the enemy the maximum opportunity to die for his.