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What if someone was stealing your property? Let’s say a week or two of income worth. You would just let them walk away with it?
by analyte123 4y ago
What if someone was stealing your property? Let’s say a week or two of income worth. You would just let them walk away with it?
- epicureanideal 4y agoAnd then imagine that it happens week after week after week. “It’s just money”, some people say, but it’s the money that person is trading hours, days, years of their life for. It keeps them away from their family. It pays for their kids’ medical expenses. It pays for the meager savings they save up by skipping meals so they can take their family on a small vacation once per year.
- blacksmith_tb 4y agoWell, in the case of personal property, I would, yes - it's insured? It'd have to be something pretty important for me to feel like attacking the thief, unless they were threatening me or my family. I sympathize with retailers getting robbed repeatedly, and obviously that'd make you angry, potentially desperate, (and I expect judges might be more sympathetic if they resorted to violence), but what I'm sensing in this thread is a "kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out" approach to rule-breaking, which I can't get on board with. Self-defense can be proportionate, or not - shooting someone who shoved you is not going to pass that test in most courts.