When do two wrongs make a right?

[Cyril Haearn]

Fireworks should be banned I think, maybe organised displays (on water?) could be allowed or maybe not, plusminus, two wrongs and an exception?

If they were banned, would there be a problem with illegal displays, amateurs constructing their own fireworks?

If one does not have to be out one can avoid danger by staying home a few evenings, I don't mind restricting myself thus, but many people have to be out

I think fireworks should be banned altogether, they are just unnecessary and vast amounts of spent or half-spent rockets land in the woods and are never collected, lots of hedgehogs die too

[[XAP]Bob]

[quote="pwa" So if a member of my family was a victim of violence and the law failed to deal with a perpetrator, and I knew who it was, I would deal with it myself without any feelings of guilt. Only after the law had failed. To some that would be committing another "wrong", but not to me.

And then a relative of theirs decides to deal with you and after that one of your relatives decides to deal with him and so it goes on......

When you see the law failing to deal with a gross injustice, you can choose between walking away or seeking justice by alternative means. The latter is not great, but to just walk away if you know somebody is getting away with harming someone you care about...? Each must make up their own mind in that situation, and if turning the other cheek seems best, fine.

But justice and the law are not the same thing. The law is supposed to be a tool to give us justice, but it can fail. Justice is higher than the law. For me it takes priority over the law. I hope I never find myself in a situation where I have to choose, because I really think justice is best dispensed by the law and society works best when that is happening. But in an extreme situation that I'm not likely to face, I would be willing to contemplate taking illegal action to remedy an injustice the law has failed with. I'm not violent, I've never hurt anyone, so actually harming another human would not come easy to me.

(Didn't think this thread would be dug up again

There is a difference between a past crime and an ongoing crime as well...