Apparently a criminals life is more important than his mother's or the property she worked her ass off for.
Breaking into a house in the daytime, you expect people to be gone to work.... breaking in at night, you expect people to be home.
Fuck property. If you enter my home, I assume it's for me or my family. Your "chum" has the wrong mindset, but it's about what he's defending first, THEN about what it's worth.
Yeah, realistically I agree that property isnt more valuable than life, even a criminal's life. But many criminal actions involving property also put good human life at risk, and the criminal's life becomes worthless at that point
This is the real fact of the matter. If I came home and my TV was gone - I would feel like my home was violated, I would be pissed. but I wouldn't want the guy dead. I'd also be glad that I wasn't home when fucker broke in because the carpet cost more than the TV.
There is no world where someone entering my home illegally doesn't immediately equal an eminent threat to the safety of my family.
Yeah, realistically I agree that property isnt more valuable than life, even a criminal's life.
It has to be, or else you could never enforce law over property.
Eventually, the "or else what?" chain will come down to "or you die". If you remove that last step, the criminals can always push it to that point and win.
That's why it's best to kill the criminals.
Canadian..I had a convo with a chum of mine about this year's ago, he is against defending your property with force..he's a reserve and all that too.
He told me he would rather call the cops and hide in his house, at the time he lived with his mother as he was in college.
Apparently a criminals life is more important than his mother's or the property she worked her ass off for.
Breaking into a house in the daytime, you expect people to be gone to work.... breaking in at night, you expect people to be home.
Fuck property. If you enter my home, I assume it's for me or my family. Your "chum" has the wrong mindset, but it's about what he's defending first, THEN about what it's worth.
Yeah, realistically I agree that property isnt more valuable than life, even a criminal's life. But many criminal actions involving property also put good human life at risk, and the criminal's life becomes worthless at that point
This is the real fact of the matter. If I came home and my TV was gone - I would feel like my home was violated, I would be pissed. but I wouldn't want the guy dead. I'd also be glad that I wasn't home when fucker broke in because the carpet cost more than the TV.
There is no world where someone entering my home illegally doesn't immediately equal an eminent threat to the safety of my family.
It has to be, or else you could never enforce law over property.
Eventually, the "or else what?" chain will come down to "or you die". If you remove that last step, the criminals can always push it to that point and win.
The way we frame the conversation is wrong. We aren't putting a value on the criminal's life or our property, the criminal is.