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You can't kill someone for biting you. The disparity in how we perform self defense is speceisist. As are a whole lot of ordinary things that everyone does, w
by Natsu 12y ago
You can't kill someone for biting you. The disparity in how we perform self defense is speceisist. As are a whole lot of ordinary things that everyone does, which is why I don't buy into the argument to begin with.
- Falling3 12y agoAnd if someone inserts a needle into you to take your blood and potentially transmits a dangerous disease? If we weren't on the topic of animal rights, there would be no disagreement with the assessment of self-defense.
- Natsu 12y agoThat would not generally rise to the level of lethal force. People also kill flies, roaches, etc. and the self defense justification is a lot more flimsy there, particularly when people will preemptively attempt to wipe them out, based on the assumption that they will do bad things... because of their species. Interestingly, that also points to one sort of intelligence. That is to say, you can't assume anything about how a person will behave simply because of what race they are. You can reasonably do so with unintelligent animals (e.g. you can assume a mosquito will bite you, given a chance).