retrocop - I recall the last time you regaled me with another of your fantasy scenarios which are not connected to the debate in any way, it ended with you in high dudgeon, promising dire consequences when the Editorial Team were advised.
And here you are doing exactly the same thing again.
With considerable caution, I will respond to your post, but be aware that if it escalates in the same way as the last time, our exchange will be considerable shorter.
Off we go then -
// You confront a burglar in the night in your house. You are threatened with a knife by the felon. You fear for your life but happen to have a cricket bat propped up by the front door.Are we expected to think you wouldn’t defend yourself after you had been stabbed by the perpetrator?
I am not sure why you are using the royal 'we', so i will address your fantasy, since it is yours alone.
You can think whatever you like, but in that fictional setting, yes i would defend myself, I think any sane person would.
// You are no atheist. You are a plaster saint with your pious logic. //
I am an atheist, I am not a 'plaster saint', and i do not have 'pious logic'.
You however, are being offensive without cause.
Ironic considering your long and florid responses when you perceive such reactions to your own rhetoric.
I am not being drawn into another pointless, tedious, nasty, de-railing row.
I have responded to your point with reason and courtesy.
How much longer we debate depends on your future responses.