Suppose, for example, your neighbor and his family don't like you, you see them looking at you in a strange way, and so, under the guise of preemptive self-defense, you kill them all. This is obviously morally impermissible for both intuitive and rational reasons (e.g. utilitarianism or violation of the right to life) and could be the start of a bloody feud or a state of perpetual war. If the aggressor in this scenario had acted within these traditional constraints, peace would have been maintained as well as the right to self-defense. Hobbes's law of nature (Hobbes 1651:157) states that men must "seek peace and follow it." These traditional bonds facilitate maintaining a state of peace while allowing for self-defense. Thompson's (1991:287) innocent threat scenario also illustrates the need for these constraints by stating things that draw attention to imminence such as "just enough time" and providing a proportional response such as "move a