laurent_du: What if they are going to kill your child? I have zero respect for this kind of conviction.

specproc: I have to say I'm fortunate enough never to have found myself in that situation. Is this something that happens regularly in America?

We all know it's not common in any industrialized society for a parent to have to kill to protect their child's life. And asking laurent_du about the American experience may not be productive as he or she may never have been to America.

Regardless, the frequency of a situation is not relevant to a discussion of what a person would or should do in that situation.