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I’m not sure anyone besides your ex-boyfriend would defend his actions?

Size doesn’t matter. Let’s say you’re a female body builder, and you’re 7’5, 300lbs of muscle. And he’s 4’2, 60lbs. Once he decides to get physically abusive, you have the right to defend yourself.

Now back to reality, your size vs his size means you’re not winning a physical battle in an even fight.

It requires you to have a weapon. Even after stabbing him he didn’t let go. Think about that. In order to get out of his grip, you HAD to go as deep as you did.

It’s the same reason I defend the Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings in WWII. One atomic bomb wasn’t enough for them to surrender. Two atomic bombs weren’t enough for them to surrender. It was only on the promise of the future 3rd atomic bombing that they surrendered. So we HAD to go that far.

Some justified actions feel bad that they had to go that far.

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LuckyTree@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Yep, I see your point, thanks.

I kind of still remember my ex’s deep moaning and loud exhaling with a suffering face and his body bending over while I deepened my knife into his belly…

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- Zikeji@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  You might tell yourself in retrospect that you consciously made that decision to deepen it and twist it, but with the adrenaline, panic, fear? You instinctually reacted to survive, and the fact you were able to withdraw from the situation before inflicting greater harm is a testament to the fact it wasn’t cruel.
  
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  - LuckyTree@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Yeah, perhaps it was rather instinctive than conscious
    
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