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It's good advice. Losing a car is much less worse than personal injury or worse. Everybody's a toughguy until a methhead who can't feel pain stabs you 15 times.

It's good advice. Losing a car is much less worse than personal injury or worse. Everybody's a toughguy until a methhead who can't feel pain stabs you 15 times. Should the police crack down? Sure, but they aren't magicians, crime isn't gonna magically dissolve tomorrow. In the mean time, keep yourself safe by not inviting harm.

vbezhenar 1y ago
I'm living in a third-world country and I think this is madness. It's unimaginable here, to be afraid of "methheads" so much and giving up on your own property. I never saw "methhead" in my life, but I sure would do my best to protect my valuable property. May be I need to work more to buy a car, compared to average Canadian, I don't know.
- koakuma-chan 1y ago
  Yeah Canadian government is crazy. They made drugs legal, and they also let criminals go after they get caught.
potato3732842 1y ago
This attitude is exactly the problem. It only takes a small fraction of people to fight the meth head for the meth head to choose a different crime. It's like the "we don't pay ransoms" logic only the math is infinitely more favorable to victims.
koakuma-chan 1y ago
Yeah and you can probably get insurance against theft right?
- zdragnar 1y ago
  It becomes unaffordable pretty quickly for a lot of people when such theft becomes endemic.
  - to11mtm 1y ago
    Yep, just ask Kia owners as a recent example.
bluefirebrand 1y ago
If the culture was "if a methhead tries to stab you, you can and should use any force necessary to stop them" that might be different But no, the culture in Canada is "Check your privilege and let the poor methhead stab you" No joke, people in Canada genuinely do not think they can or should use force to protect themselves from dangerous threats
- Twistyfiasco 1y ago
  With all due respect you are quite incorrect. Most people think and do use for to protect themselves from threats like all humans. The issue was bringing the US style castle doctrine defence argument where some folks feel that since the intruder is trespassing they have carte blanche to murder them.
  - psunavy03 1y ago
    This is a complete mischaracterization of the Castle Doctrine. It simply means you have no duty to retreat when attacked in your own home. Using disproportionate force is still some flavor of illegal homicide.
mothballed 1y ago
When you defend yourself you don't just defend yourself, but every other victim that would come after you.
- jopsen 1y ago
  To some extend, a criminal with nothing to lose don't necessarily stop just because they get caught. And for most of us, any risk to health or wellbeing isn't worth taking. You have something to lose the desperate criminal drug addict might not. Granted, hardening your property against burglary is pretty low risk. There is no reason not to have 3 point doors and windows. Just don't harden it so much that a determined firefighter can't get in :)

vbezhenar 1y ago

I'm living in a third-world country and I think this is madness. It's unimaginable here, to be afraid of "methheads" so much and giving up on your own property. I never saw "methhead" in my life, but I sure would do my best to protect my valuable property. May be I need to work more to buy a car, compared to average Canadian, I don't know.

koakuma-chan 1y ago
Yeah Canadian government is crazy. They made drugs legal, and they also let criminals go after they get caught.

potato3732842 1y ago

This attitude is exactly the problem. It only takes a small fraction of people to fight the meth head for the meth head to choose a different crime. It's like the "we don't pay ransoms" logic only the math is infinitely more favorable to victims.

koakuma-chan 1y ago

Yeah and you can probably get insurance against theft right?

zdragnar 1y ago
It becomes unaffordable pretty quickly for a lot of people when such theft becomes endemic.
- to11mtm 1y ago
  Yep, just ask Kia owners as a recent example.

bluefirebrand 1y ago

If the culture was "if a methhead tries to stab you, you can and should use any force necessary to stop them" that might be different But no, the culture in Canada is "Check your privilege and let the poor methhead stab you" No joke, people in Canada genuinely do not think they can or should use force to protect themselves from dangerous threats

Twistyfiasco 1y ago
With all due respect you are quite incorrect. Most people think and do use for to protect themselves from threats like all humans. The issue was bringing the US style castle doctrine defence argument where some folks feel that since the intruder is trespassing they have carte blanche to murder them.
- psunavy03 1y ago
  This is a complete mischaracterization of the Castle Doctrine. It simply means you have no duty to retreat when attacked in your own home. Using disproportionate force is still some flavor of illegal homicide.

mothballed 1y ago

When you defend yourself you don't just defend yourself, but every other victim that would come after you.

jopsen 1y ago
To some extend, a criminal with nothing to lose don't necessarily stop just because they get caught. And for most of us, any risk to health or wellbeing isn't worth taking. You have something to lose the desperate criminal drug addict might not. Granted, hardening your property against burglary is pretty low risk. There is no reason not to have 3 point doors and windows. Just don't harden it so much that a determined firefighter can't get in :)