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In reply to the discussion: My property is never worth more than a person's life. [View all]uppityperson
(115,677 posts)106. Do you have a car? Do you work somewhere else? Are you ever gone from your home or somewhere else?
Sometimes I drive to the grocery store or work. If someone breaks into my car, I am not going to kill them.
I have things at my work. If someone breaks in there and steals things, I won't kill them.
Sometimes I am gone from my home. If I arrive home and see someone running out with my tv, I'm not going to kill them.
There are lots of places other than "home with my daughter" that I have property to steal. You aren't "fleshing out the situation" but throwing out a strawman.
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So your talking about greedy corporations that help kill people for profit like the MIC?
L0oniX
Jul 2013
#16
Exactly. Materialistic capitalism only succeeds if it convinces us our stuff is all that matters
NuclearDem
Jul 2013
#64
If you care about a thing than the life of another human being, you've got issues.
NuclearDem
Jul 2013
#83
You "care about" a plaque more than a life. Doesn't surprise me or probably most of us here, glad yo
uppityperson
Jul 2013
#97
Why would anyone want that? Really? No real monetary value, just sentimental.
notadmblnd
Jul 2013
#146
If one is going to resort to "violent resistance" to retain their worthless keepsakes
notadmblnd
Jul 2013
#161
For the most part cars are not used to violently resist theft of sentimental relics.
notadmblnd
Jul 2013
#170
No normal person tries to stop a property theft of any kind by a deliberate bullet to the brain.
kestrel91316
Jul 2013
#103
You would have had every right to defend your children because they are HUMAN beings
pnwmom
Jul 2013
#52
Are you saying you have a general right and reponsibility to defend your things (i.e., property)
pnwmom
Jul 2013
#65
It would seem that you are incapable of learning that people have differences of opinions,
tumtum
Jul 2013
#115
Merely commenting on a forum discussion. Differences of opinions are ok. And if you want to use a
uppityperson
Jul 2013
#118
Reading your profile, we grew up the same era. Not sure of place or upbringing, but era, yes.
uppityperson
Jul 2013
#123
We generally have three animal shelter dogs of the "unadoptable" often much older sort.
hunter
Jul 2013
#220
Those into guns will disagree with you, especially if they can shoot someone of another race.
Hoyt
Jul 2013
#3
Yep ...some try to portray "all" gun owners as sociopath racists who want to shoot purple people.
L0oniX
Jul 2013
#11
When someone breaks into your house, they get what they get. I probably wouldn't start swinging my
Hoyt
Jul 2013
#36
Yep. Next thing, they'll defending cases when it just "looked like" someone was up to no good...
reformist2
Jul 2013
#8
So if someone is breaking into my home, and my daughter is here, and he wants to rape her
The Straight Story
Jul 2013
#9
If someone is breaking into your house, it's reasonable to fear for your safety
gollygee
Jul 2013
#24
Do you have a car? Do you work somewhere else? Are you ever gone from your home or somewhere else?
uppityperson
Jul 2013
#106
Nope. Not one. And no one can provide factual support for a contrary assertion.
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2013
#140
I'm not an expert on Gandhi, but I wonder what he would say about someone like Hitler. I consider
HardTimes99
Jul 2013
#153
My understanding of Gandhi shows his philosophy to be active non-violence...
Eleanors38
Jul 2013
#208
Of course you have the right to make up your own definitions and to refuse to learn/use proper
uppityperson
Jul 2013
#114
If your profile reflects reality, we grew up in the same era. I consider family responsibility, not
uppityperson
Jul 2013
#160
Why would someone allow themselves to be murdered without putting up even non-lethal resistance?
nomorenomore08
Jul 2013
#180
For that matter, why is one life more important than another. If I fire at an intruder
hughee99
Jul 2013
#23
Posts like yours are part of why we have a hard time regulating guns in this country
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2013
#121
If someone breaks into my house while I'm there I'll use any means I have to for protection.
KentuckyWoman
Jul 2013
#62
It isn't my job to find out, my job is to assume intent to harm and remove the threat.
TheKentuckian
Jul 2013
#126
If someone breaks into my home, and if I really want to know, I'll call a Psychic Medium afterwards.
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2013
#142
Close to never, but not absolutely so. The more a person shows willingness to do violence to me...
Silent3
Jul 2013
#137
I always love threads like these because it makes it easier to spot some things.
hrmjustin
Jul 2013
#154
Interesting. The only thing stopping you from burglarizing my home is the
Ed Suspicious
Jul 2013
#189