Earlier today one of my friends directed me to a CNN article about a student from the John Hopkins University who had killed a man who was allegedly robbing him and his housemates. Despite this twist of the potential victim going on the offense, the most interesting part was the attacker was killed by a samurai sword.
While this is indeed a unique crime, I was more focused on the last part of the article where the police were considering whether to charge the student with murder. Is it fair to charge someone who was the intended victim? Should the criminal/attacker be given sympathy? Or should sympathy for the criminal vary by the degree of the victim's reaction and the severity of the wound?
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