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  • Zacryon@feddit.orgtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Intruder
    11·
    17 days ago

    but beyond that whatever means necessary to protect himself is justified. No one should be worrying about the safety of their attacker when they are defending themselves

    Are burglars usually murderers? Don’t they usually care about stealing stuff to make some form of profit out of that?

    I don’t share your view. You don’t need to kill someone in order to stop some form of crime. Especially not if there is no or a low risk of bodily harm.

    Self defence only goes so far as to inrerrupt and disable an attack. The mildest means possible are the preferrable ones. For example, if some wants to beat you up, you don’t go on and kill them after you’ve defeated them and they’re unconscious on the ground.
    In this case, the best the kid could’ve done is to just run away and call for help. It would’ve been safer for himself and prevented that he possibly might have become a murderer.

    Self defence has limits. And for good reason. You can’t just do anything you want, just because someone attacks you. You do what is necessary and possible for you. Nothing more, nothing less. Otherwise you yourself become a culprit.

  • Zacryon@feddit.orgtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Intruder
    02·
    18 days ago

    you broke into my house dude you aren’t gonna be praised

    Of course not.

    This kid has every right to be proud, in this situation we are nothing but animals and he did exactly the right thing.

    So is it right to put deadly weapons into the hands of children?
    What if he had killed the burglar? Good thing to have on the conscience of a child, right?

    Don’t get me wrong. I totally understand that in extreme situations people should defend themselves. But was this an extreme situation which justifies these actions?

    What the child said is already deeply disturbing:

    “I told him I was going to kill him if he didn’t get out of my house,” said Chris.

    And why the fuck do children have access to weapons?

    he grabbed a 9mm handgun

    Then there is this:

    The intruder made it out the front door, but that’s when Chris started firing off bullets. As the intruder was about to jump a fence, Chris’s 12th and final shot hit the bad guy in the leg.

    ( Citations from: https://www.wptv.com/news/national/chris-gaither-11-year-old-boy-shoots-intruder-who-cried-like-a-baby )

    Intruder was outside, going away, and the kid started shooting.
    The kid could’ve just ran away. Instead of trying to kill someone or getting themselves killed by such a behaviour.

    No. The kid shouldn’t be proud. Neither should anyone. That’s just fucked up. And raising kids to become possibly killers is not making it better overall.
    He can be lucky not to have killed that man and that he (the kid) didn’t get seriously injured.

    People can and should be better than this.

  • Zacryon@feddit.orgtoMemes@lemmy.ml•adblock on mobile is 95% the only reason I use firefox
    2·
    3 months ago

    The level of your argumentation:
    Are you a firefighter or a medical doctor? If not, you’re obviously in favour of fires, death and disease.
    Why aren’t you donating all of your stuff to homeless people? Or are you happy all those people don’t have a home?
    Why aren’t you saving the world already???

    You know, demanding change and maybe showing some sort of protest does not mean you need to do those things exactly as you would like to see them, especially if those efforts wouldn’t change anything on the larger scale and rather lead to a bunch of problems in your life.

  • Zacryon@feddit.orgtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Mandalorian
    31·
    4 months ago

    NEVER consume media legally

    Given our current economic system and supposing that you can’t change it for now, how would you support a living for media creators (movies, shows, games, art, music, whatever)?

    Genuine question. I find myself on the fence about this. Currently, I consume media legally due to several reasons:

    • Supporting the creators and thereby incentivising them to produce more of stuff which I enjoyed.
    • I can afford it.
    • I would like to keep it legal.

    Stuff like this (although not affected since I don’t live in a country with that shitty laws), but also the decline of quality products as a result of companies trying to maximize their profit margins by producing a lot of cheap trash, as well as the criminalization of consumers and the fact that the profits are not shared equally among the creators but rather a few get the most while the rest gets some pennies (an issue present in virtually every business), make me really favour the idea of getting a pirate hat.

    However:
    If everyone would do this, this would lead to the death of the media industry, since no one would be able to pay for the productions and everyone involved anymore.
    How would get those productions then?

    Really, I think the only way to change this is to impose much better laws on the one hand and switch to a different, better, economic system on the other hand. But I don’t see these things coming soon. Which leaves me with staying legal.

    I would like to read your thoughts on that. (And those of everyone else who wants to chime in.)