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The point is, he didn't opt in to being surveilled by Amazon. That it had a positive outcome is irrelevant to the point. It's a strange anecdata. What's the di
by HWR_14 4y ago
The point is, he didn't opt in to being surveilled by Amazon. That it had a positive outcome is irrelevant to the point. It's a strange anecdata.
What's the difference between what you wrote and responding to someone who is in favor on limits of publicly brandishing guns with: I don't know about your neighbor. But my neighbor (a black man, fyi) was very happy that I sat on my porch with a loaded shotgun every evening, and shot the dude who climbed through his window and stole his kid's MacBook.
- tetromino_ 4y agoThe difference is that your example is made-up while mine is true, recent, and (I believe) representative of normal people's attitudes. Normal people love cameras because normal people much prefer being surveilled by Amazon (or, in most cases, by Amazon's cheaper and less secure Chinese competitors in the camera business) vs. having their home broken into and their pawnable electronics stolen.
- adolph 4y agoShotgun on the porch isn't exactly made up, it has happened before. The Joe Horn shooting controversy occurred on November 14, 2007, in Pasadena, Texas, United States, when local resident Joe Horn shot and killed two burglars outside his neighbor's home. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Horn_shooting_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Horn_shooting_controversy
- pessimizer 4y ago> and (I believe) representative of normal people's attitudes. So you're not against making things up if you can make this up, so why not go along with the hypothetical?
- kritiko 4y agoTo be a bit of a pedant, one’s porch wouldn’t be public, would it?
- HWR_14 4y agoTo be very pedantic back, it's not public property but it is in public. Brandishing laws obviously differ from state to state, but the "public" part of brandishing means that people can see you.