far as we punish crimes because they are immoral acts. Killing generally is immoral, most people would agree, but
self-
defense may act as a moral
defense to the killing. It just so happens that in domestic law, we have codified many of these moral
defenses into legal
defenses, but that doesn't deprive them of their moral underpinnings. What those
defenses require, however, is a weighing of the culpability of the crime against the moral
defense offered. Here, Dubai's domestic law has preemptively and presumptively already weighed these arguments in relation...