I have nothing against staying home and growing cabbage, but if one was to stay home and grow cabbage whilst been a coward e.g. running away from the crows to find somewhere with less crows to grow cabbage that would just be sad. I didnt say go looking for trouble, I said it is right that if we find trouble we should attempt to stop it.
'My loyalty is to my loved ones, not to strangers.' However I am sure that you would appreciate the help of a stranger if you or your loved ones were attacked. You can see a fight and walk past with your head down, thats fine. But and maybe I judge you wrongly, if you saw an 7 year old girl been held down by two 30 year old men, while a third had his trousers down, you wouldnt walk away and pretend you hadnt seen. You know deep down that walking away would be wrong. And you would be ashamed of yourself, shame is their to help us see the right path, not to make us feel like ****. You feel shame when you have done something wrong and walking away is the wrong thing to do. You may be greatful for your friend preventing you from interfering now, but if you could and your friend could have prevented whatever happened then surely it would have been right for you to do so.
Never violate a woman can be seen as living in celibacy forever, if thats how you interpret it fine, I see it as never rape a woman, and taking it to a literacy extreme is fine, but thats not for me cheers (I like women too much).
If said child holds an AK-47 then is he really a child, again it depends on interpretaion, I would see never harm a child as never kill a child, and child I would see as an inncent, at age 17 someone is not an adult, and yet are still liable for their own actions, at age 3 they are not.
If said thugs come to your house, why can you either a) not be their or b) tell them they cannot have the stranger, as you are protecting him or c) call the police. As Im sure you know lying/cheating does not refer to a situation like this but to the situation where you say no, I didnt cheat on you last night honey (to your wife, when you did, which Im sure we will both agree is wrong)
I never said I was perfect but stealing is wrong, everyone knows this. This point is hardly worth debating unless you want to bring up the 'loaf of bread starving family' situation...
Protecting the weak against the evil strong, I will remember this if I ever see you 'the weak' been attacked by bad people 'the strong' and I will come to your aid. I am not going to get embroiled in the politics of the war in Iraq as I do not know enough, but as I said earlier, I believe you would try to defend the seven year old girl, in danger of been violated, harmed, and stolen from, which kind of proves my point. And if you wouldnt defend the girl, then I respectfully suggest you visit a psychiatrist.
As for everyone folling the rule, of course it is absurd, but so are the majority of your ideas for trying to discredit my code. Communism is of course a good idea, everyone been equal is a great idea, it just requires everyone to put the same effort into it.
If you think you can live happily without absolute codes of behaviour thats great, but if that involves you leaving dying men in the street, leaving young children to suffer and not helping those most in need, I think perhaps I will stick with my code. Perhaps it will lead me to an earlier death than I would otherwise have, but at least I will not have to answer in the future
'Why did you leave that little girl to die?'