Oomis: Thanks for your personal opinion on the complex halachic matter of what constitutes a rodef. I’ll write an angry letter to the Rambam ‘
No need, LAB – – a rodeif is someone who is out to murder you (or someone else). If a serial killer were in a closed room with me, and I knew for a fact that the person WAS the killer, and he or she was coming towards me, I know it would not be to discuss the Rambam. In the moment, one tends not to take out a Sefer to consult what to do. An innocent baby in a its laboring mother, can under certain circumstances be considered a rodeif – I think a serial murderer surely must be one.