DR> And when someone breaks the law but applying their fist to your 
 DR> face, do you stand there and take it or do you assume a defensive 
 DR> posture?
PERSONAL, physical _defense_ is one thing: malicious use of a fax machine to
extract a perceived "toll" of another - in effect, a "vigilante action" - 
oes
not quite figure-in to the same equation as _defense_.
Let's use another scenario:
You witness a bank robbery...and you're unarmed. You're not in a car,
but you're not exactly surrounded by a hoard of other people either.
Others _may_ have seen the same that you saw.  Whaddya do :
        1.) Rush right into the bank, tackle the armed bandit
            that fired his weapon, and slap him to his senses ?
        2.) Get to the nearest telephone just as quietly as
            you can so that the armed bandit _doesn't_ try
            emptying his weapon in your direction, and call
            the cops ?
        3.) Find the nearest cop and tell him what you saw...
            and then let him handle the situation as his
            training would allow him ?
        4.) Ignore what you saw, and continue on to wherever
            you were going in the first place, rationalising
            that `someone else can get involved' ?
Semper Fi
RTP
... Life is Full of Choices: Pick Yours...
~~~ PGPBLUE 3.0 
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