I would still classify what you’re describing as proportional self defence, since punching a fascist is always self defence haha 😄

I have a much easier time using REAPER rather than Ardour.

I’d say that lethal force is rational when used as proportional self-defence. Or, in the words of Malcolm Reynolds, “if someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back.”

I think the Gandalf quote, however, is specifically referring to death as a punishment for “just” being a thoroughly contemptible, evil and heinous person.

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many - yours not least.”

- Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring

Okay, is there another meaning to G spot I haven’t heard of, other than the sensitive interior counterpart to the clitoris? Because it seems very strange to have such a morose reaction to that.