If that’s the basis of the law, if a child enters your home without permission and you feel threatened you are allowed to take any force necessary to no longer feel threatened. Using that definition you could stab an 8 year old to death and be in your legal rights.
Would you then like to retract your statement that a b&e with a brandished weapon is “open season”? I definitely don’t take that as a nuanced take that is driving towards broader understanding.
You think my argument is not good fai to h because you’re incapable of drawing a line between excessive and reasonable force. If the law were to simply state that self defense is permissible in instances of home intrusion, how are the courts meant to differentiate? There was a case recently where someone literally woke up with a knife in their head, who managed to fight off their attacker, and send them fleeing from their property. The resident chased the intruder back to their car and proceeded to stab them to death. The courts ruled they went from being assaulted to bring the assailant and ended up guilty of murder. Do you disagree with this ruling? Do you think that any level of force is justified following an initial attack, even if that force does not end when an assailant backs off?
Maybe we can hope for a mini-nuclear winter!?
Honestly the replies of “if we can save a single life, our struggle will be worth it” are nothing if not funny in the face of the horrors to come, especially as their coming so we can collectively shove just one more burger in our faces.
Every passing day I get one step closer to just saying “fuck it” and becoming a hedonist while watching 90% of the world seemingly not give a single fuck about the future.
Is it then “open season” to capture and torture an intruder for months on end? How about a kid who loses their ball in your back yard then jumps the fence, bat in hand, to retrieve it? Still “open season”? How do we otherwise draw the lines between these examples and one where a knife is used in am act of desperation leading to the death of a violent intruder?
American culture is imperialism.
Disobedience, disruption and sabatoge at every opportunity is the only chance the US citizenry has to oust the fascists without a civil or world war.
Nope, I didn’t take it as belligerence either, just wanted to confirm I agree.
Making a statement that minimizes state violence because it’s against a state that undertakes state violence is still minimizing state violence. In this instance it is minimizing the violence of a genocidal state that is far more violent than the state it is attacking for undertaking state violence.
Yes, I’m only referencing deaths attributed to direct military action - or the IDF’s direct murder of children with bullets and bombs. This is not to minimize the horror they have inflicted through genocidal policy.
Israel has murdered at least 21,000 CHILDREN over the past 30 months. To think that they have any moral standing is moronic at best, but more likely pure evil.
The stock market is a cult. Company valuations have detached from any sense of use-value reality - most of the stock markets’values is derived from how much money a stock might make and not what value a company provides to society. Valuations don’t even mirror how much revenue potential companies have, but make it up based on future revenue potential, which can be easily manipulated to simply create wealth. It’s been this way for a long time, but the extent of the situation has lost nearly any attachment to reality.
The stock is actually up 10% this month. The stock market is a shell game on full display at this point.
About time - now hopefully we ban all Canadian arms sales to Israel and end impose sanctions until they back off from genocide (at the bare minimum).
Go to shows, buy the albums from the merch tables and use the events (to the best of your individual ability) as a means to connect with like minded anti-fascists.
Grind culture should start at birth! If you can’t get yourself into a mortgage by 16, are you even trying to succeed in life!? /s
We’re you not at the vacuum collector meet up featured in How to with John Wilson (s03e04)?
Come hang out in -35c and then talk to me.
We got em in our Kia and they’re amazing this time of year.
Do you really want laws to be formed primarily around individual feelings of threat?