Queer as Folk, Season 4

Brian:
Say somebody bashes you, nearly kills you. Does that give you the right to go out and do the same?

Ben:
Of course not.

Brian:
Why?

Michael:
'Cause two wrongs don't make a right.

Ben:
Besides, there are laws.

Brian:
But what if the law failed to protect you? What if the law doesn't give a shit? Then what?

Michael:
Then I guess you'd have to take the law into your own hands.

Ben:
No no no... violence is never a moral option.

Brian:
But doing nothing... letting someone bash your brains in, it is?... Thus, the conscience does make cowards of us all.