"Toxis@ze_yval_place" <tox@work.ble> wrote in message 
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>  I fire two shots and kill Cristabel. The first bullet strikes her brain, 
> killing her immediately. The second bullet lodges in her heart: it would 
> have killed her, had she not already died because of the first bullet. I 
> argue that I did no serious harm. Bearing in mind what the second bullet 
> would have done, the first bullet merely caused Cristabel the loss of one 
> second of life