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Lebell -- yes and no. I do not have the right to use deadly force to prevent my own death, or any other attack on me (ethically, that is, and with intention it can get quite gray. Also, the government is exactly right to make it legally okay to kill in self-defense.) But I would probably say you have the right to use deadly force to prevent even serious harm to someone else, so not just in cases of death. So if someone's about to beat someone else within an inch of their life, or rape someone, or..., you may use deadly force if it is necessary.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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