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Your framing implies the normative claim that convenience store robbers should be shot and killed. This is hotly contested on moral grounds, but on purely mater
by uoaei 5y ago
Your framing implies the normative claim that convenience store robbers should be shot and killed. This is hotly contested on moral grounds, but on purely material grounds it is hard to justify that claim at all.
- jokethrowaway 5y agoIf the teen attacked the cop there is a self defense claim, albeit that doesn't stand if the use of force is greater than the threat (eg shooting someone if you think they're unarmed)
- speg 5y agoYou may have missed the “attacks police officer” part.
- uoaei 5y agoDoes that also warrant shooting and killing? Why do those who take the oath to protect and serve have a seemingly paradoxical right to extinguish life?
- yes_really 5y agoThe framing does not imply that at all. The framing is "Convenience store robber attacks police officer and was killed in the process". The justification for the shooting is clearly that the robber attacked the police officer, not that he robbed a convenience store.