  This is classic. There is a rumor going around that I am the sort of person who kicks a man when he is down. It is true. I say that if a man needs kicking, it is best to take a good shot at him when he is most vulnerable. The best objection that I have heard to kicking a man when he is down is that it is not quite sporting.
I hold that to kick a man for sport is bad. If he needs kicking, then he obviously poses some serious threat to the common good, and that a well-placed kick when he is down will probably keep him down longer, or at least will dissuade him from the behavior that required his kicking to begin with. Read the whole thing at urlLink Erik's Rant's and Recipes . 
