Abstract
It is a well-known truth that we face our greatest ethical problems in a situation in which we do not have a clear choice between good and evil, but rather when we have a conflict between two or more ethical duties. This is valid both in the individual as well as in the communal realm. The moral dilemma becomes particularly acute when it comes to what seems to be a struggle for survival. Granted that self-defense is an inalienable right of human beings (as the Talmud says: If a man is about to kill you, kill him first); there is always a question of the limits of that right. Those limits can never be accurately defined by law. As Haim Cohn, following Kant, has pointed out, no legislative command can have any effect or any prospect of obedience if it collides with the natural
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