The end should always justify the means - and as long as this was to happen then I would be satisfied that I was sitting on the right side of the Law - or at least my interpretation of it.

(ie the action had been taken for the big picture 'greater good')

The good news is that, as of up to today's date, the society in which we live tends to (in the main, unknowingly) agree with me - even if the Law, as it is written, doesn't necessarily fully comply to my way of thinking.

(I certainly think it is worth you checking out SHORT STORY #2 titled "THE STRANGE MAN" on my FB account https://www.facebook.com/jimwyllie98

with everything in mind that I have just said.

Having read this...do you believe what I did was the right thing to do?... and in any case ...

What would you have done - when no crime had been committed?

This STRANGE MAN story is not an easy one to answer).

I am going to start this deep dive (or dissection) by highlighting 2 of my own 'Modus Operandi' (M.O.) quotes from the days of FLASHING LIGHTS to quide you through my mindset at this time (not that it has changed in any way to the present day) and to assist your understanding of how these examples (amongst many others) were to become the basis of my deep-rooted opinions built up over many years of similar, or even contradictory*, experiences.

*contradictory... Sometimes in life you have to see - or even study (over quite a lengthy period) the wrong way in order to know how things should be done the right way.

Let's start with the big one...

"There is a very thin line between a good copper and a good villain"

and then this is underlined by

"If the bad guys don't oblige any law, best the good guys are bound by the spirit of the law - rather than the letter"

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