I couldn’t agree more.
Unfortunately, the international lawyers don’t agree, to the point that ‘interdicted’ pirated ships are allowed to send pirates back & forth to shore for supplies.
It all started when American looters & fleeing felons could no longer be shot on sight.
Next came Britain’s courts calling it ‘cruel’ and ‘innhumane’ to cut off water & power to hostage takers in buildings.
Next step was for American police to send pizzas to barricaded robbers.
This is the penultimate step.
The final blow will be when our police and military are not allowed to shoot at invading barbarian hordes, but can only serve cease & decease writs to pillagers.
Yeah, it's weird, people don't even remember. All you have to do is watch vintage TV and movies. There's that Twilight Zone episode where the guy thinks he's in heaven but it's really hell. In the opening scene he's a burglar fleeing from the cops and he gets shot down trying to climb a fence. Also, note the beginning of Hitchcock's Veritgo, which involves a rooftop chase with the cops shooting indiscriminately at their quarry, notwithstanding that he gets away.
And from real life, I remember a LIFE magazine cover article about the Newark riots of the sixties - "Willie Jones(sic), caught in the act of stealing beer" Apparently the LIFE reporter was interviewing the guy when a cop car wheeled up and he fled, only to be cut down by a shotgun blast. The reporter duly interviewed the cop, who gave some perfunctory justification like, "he shouldn't have tried to run." This was the beginning of the end for the practice of shooting at fleeing felons.