an eye for an eye, where do you stand?

[James Jackson]

only kill if you need to in order to survive, that should go towards anything animal such as a dog/cat ect and human ( im talking in worse case not going to supermarket for meat) if you do so in order to survive then i dont see it as a crime.. look at the film survive, people in world war 2 who where sunk and one person was killed so the rest could live. If it came to it would you eat another person in order to live. I sure as hell would. if its to protect yourself, then so be it. But their has to be just course, like the person having a weapon, or you walk in on them raping somebody and you grab the first thing at hand to fight them off..... Why should a person protecting themselves be punished such as assault, gbh, abh when the person was armed and/or looking like a threat.
Murder, Rape, Theft (for no reason) should be punished. If the person gets away with it ie light sentance or slap on wrist they will do it again. We need to be tougher on it