Re: 'Caught in the act'

I do have to agree with this. Reprisal must be commensurate to the crime (or so-called). I think that killing someone over rape is just completely over the top. As for a bit of unwanted "touchy feely" behaviour I wouldn't even want to punish that with any form of violence whatsoever. I regard unwanted mild sexual advances as more a misdemeanour rather than as something serious. If my dog comes over to my leg and starts humping it, am I going to KILL it just for that?? No I'm not. I think all a person needs to have said to them in such situations is "Hey why don't you cut it. Come on". And if they continue, then pull them away or something, but physically hurting them seems completely unproportional to the trouble they are causing. That would be how I would react against someone iniatiting force against my own offspring. I would only start physically hurting them if it got bad, but it would need to get BAD. I would regard a state busybody who poked their nose into my business as FAR more of a threat than just some randy rapist. It's when those people turn up when all my shot guns come out.