>>21
And what is your arugment exactly? You didn't ask if whether or not people should use deadly force to protect themselves. You asked: "Why do people treat criminals as equals?"
If murder is a crime, is it still a crime when someone is protect themselves? It's not a loaded question- it's a point I'm making about the subjectivity of what is amoral behavior.
>>22
Legislators invoke the will of a collective of individuals. What is your point? You keep repeating "Crazy people do commit crimes" over and over like that distills my argumentment. In science and in rational thinking you can't just disregard the mechanisms for actions- in this case the mechanism for a crazy person commiting a crime is his craziness. And in that state of insanity it is possible for one to not know he is commiting a crime.