Now, my comment in this post was meant as humor. I do not condemn hunters as they generally kill for food or hide or to control pests.
The reason I have no trouble talking about eliminating people is that I'd only do so in self-defense. I reason that anyone attacking me has it coming.
If you are a police officer AND a decent human being (which has been true for all cops I have ever met in my life in the United States), you are not a JBT in my mind. I'd come to your aid if need be.
Seriously, I am in favor of eliminating only those who are currently OR habitually prey on others people, esp. if they use the resources of the government to do so. What makes them so loathsome is that one can hope to survive a home invasion by freelance thugs but not by the DEA. A sad excuse of a human that would ambush and murder someone innocent and then claim it was to fight drugs or whatever other canard of the day is definitely qualifies as a JBT.
To put it in historic terms, not all Gestapo employees were JBTs but it was a pretty safe bet that any given one was. So, if we were at war, I'd try knock off every one of them.
Since we are at peace AND uniforms or place of employment are not reliable indicatiors of allegiance, I am holding my fire. I have no targets right now and hope it will stay that way.
I do have a general view that I would feel more for a neutral or friendly human or even animal than I would for a hostile one. That means that the life of my (friendly) cat is more important to me than the life of a professional cat-stomper. That also means that I would be morally justified in my mind to fire on a human to save my cat (besides, people who kill other people's pets EXCEPT in self-defense tend to behave likewise with the pet's owners). I may not be legally correct to waste a human to save an animal, but that doesn't change how I feel about it.
I hope I was clear: if I wasn't please tell me. I do not want to ruffle feathers through unclear phrasing.
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Oleg "cornered rat" Volk (JPFO,NRA)
http://dd-b.net/RKBA