Posted on 08/30/2020 1:14:19 PM PDT by grundle
Poll: What’s more important?
* The property of a business owner
* The life of someone who tries to burn down that business
I side with the business owner. The arsonist is affecting the lives of more than just the owner.
110 votes, 97% against arson
Plank #1 of the Communist Manifesto: Abolition of private property rights.
http://laissez-fairerepublic.com/TenPlanks.html
The life is more important in side by side comparison.
But it is the person’s to forfeit if he desire to destroy, and forfeit it he does when he acts to destroy.
As I posted in another thread:
Their occupations became their identities and their role in society.
Western European surnames are often based on occupations: Baker, Butcher, Butler, Carpenter, Cook, Cooper, Fisher, Gardner, Hunter, Mason, Miller, Potter, Smith, Tailor, Wheeler, Wood...Families passed down their customs to the next generation. Towns only had enough population to support a few hunters/fishers and a butcher, a few farmers/gardeners and a cook, a carpenter and a mason, a cooper and a smith, a miller and a baker...
If somebody burned down someone's bakery and they were the only baker in town, their life as "the baker" is gone. Hosting the town's casual meeting place at "the bakery" is gone. Their legacy of passing down the role of "baker" to their children is gone.
People's life work, no, their ancestors' legacy work, is gone when a stranger deems that it's only "property" so it's okay to burn it down for a cause having no relation to the owner.
-PJ
Alternatively, you can stand your ground on the property and thereby defend it with lethal force since your life is now at risk.
If you attack property you forfeit your right to life.
In Texas, the use of deadly force to prevent arson is expressly justified by statute, Tex. Penal Code s. 9.42(1)(A).
“Not a valid set of choices. The crime of arson does not demand ones life as punishment.”
Nonsense, in all the states I know of it is permissible to use lethal force to stop arson.
Property is life.
The property of a business owner.......98.13% (157 votes)
The life of someone who tries to burn down that business...... 1.87% (3 votes)
Total Votes: 160
Methinks the poll is not going as they expected.
I about spit my dinner all over my computer screen. I expected the property to come out ahead, but not by that much.
Someone doing major damage to property needs to be stopped and receive immediate punishment.
Unfortunately a gun is the only weapon that guarantees these results, but it’s also unfortunate that it’s so deadly.
A property crime doesn’t get the death penalty in a court of law.
Being a thug is risky business. If he gets a hole blown through him, it is what it is, as Trump recently said.
Is this a trick question?
When he attempts to commit arson, he is showing that he values his own life less than the owner's property.
197 property
3 the perp
I see no difference.
The business owner often has decades of hard work and hard times invested in their life’s dream.
Besides, arson is contagious. That makes it worse.
Shoot to kill. Use a 12 gauge with 00 buckshot.
Only under a certain set of circumstances. As I said previously, you can choose to defend your property with your life. Once you make that choice, you can defend your life with lethal force.
I've been saying the same thing, that people live above and next to those stores. I've also been saying that if the police were able to place snipers, they should shoot to kill anyone running up to store with molotov cocktail in hand. Problem is, the Mayors would never permit it, and the arsonists coming out of nowhere, doing their horrible deed and disappearing back into the crowd.
Until the NG walks down the street in mass, locked and loaded, this isn't going to end. That's what it took to end the days of Los Angeles burning when the police were told to back off by the acting Police Chief. They could have stopped it at the flashpoint at a liquor store. I watched that fiasco from beginning at that intersection to the end.
Who wants to know?
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