Debate: Violence never serves the cause of justice
Side: Disagree

I also posted this exact post in another debate on murder being justified. I AM A HYPOCRIT - I dont know but last night as i sat looking over my sleeping babes , this debate popped back into my head. Can murder /violence ever be justified? Honestly , i sound like a hypocrit. I cannot , under any circumstances , settle on the idea , that it cant be. I dont know if it is because i had a hard hit to the head but i remembered , last night something i did back in 1993. I was young and immature and I got involved in an break and enter. It was a stupid thing i did . My accomplices , afterwoods went to mug a passerby. I didnt even mug people in the 6 years i had spent on the streets so at this point i chose to leave and go home. A short time later they returned to tell me that they had stabbed this person in the neck with a antique clokepin that had belonged to me and that they had left it in his neck with my prints on it. My head immediatley started to race with ideas of going to jail for a murder i didnt commit. Two days later i went to the police and reported myself as being involved in the recent break in and then i also reported to them what i knew of the mugging and of what the other two people had said to me about setting me up. The police had no reports of the attack on a man being stabbed , however he had been mugged..Ultimately the two who had mugged him had brought themselves undone , by making me think they had set me up for a murder i didnt commit..........i was labbled a dog and recieved death threats.....i moved away...Two years later an ex came to say some people who were looking for me had smashed his car up...of course it was one of these two previous mentioned accomplices and her rather large heavies still hellbent with threats of revenge.I contacted the police and asked for a detective who had dealt with the case at the time to come see me. I then wrote a statement stating that this person and her heavies were still after me with the intention of seriously harming or killing me. I was a single mum on my own with a small child. I stated that unlike them i had moved on , however if they did happen to find me then i would do whatever it took to protect myself and my child , even if that resulted in the death of the other person. Anyhow i dont know how i forgot about this(maybe the windscreen) but last night as i looked in on my children , i remembered it all. And thought about this debate again..and thought hypocritically as much as i hate it , i did pre-justify the posibility of my possible violent actions of violence to this woman and her heavies possible violent actions , Legally. And I am glad to say that as 2009 comes to a close, i heard nothing more from this girl , not since i made the statement to police covering my butt against any possible charges of MURDER in defence to hers . But i guess justified or not , i would still fight to the death for my children, And revenge , in regards to anyone harming my children , will always come as a passionate reflex response. Maybe if people started having enough balls to stand up to arseholes , then we would have less arsehole behaviour in society for a start. And if youve misunderstood my basic simple talk , then maybe thats tough , As i feel all this intellectually intelligent diologue is violently pompous .