[ExTxMarine]

What’s the difference?

This is as different as burglary is from robbery!

Sure, in both cases something is lost due to someone taking it, but the reality is one is a personal, often threatening, direct interaction with the owner and the other is a non-personal, typically non-threatening, indirect taking of property.

I appreciate your sympathy, but I think the difference is quite clear.

[takebackaustin]

Exactly. Your rant that I replied to, explaining your take on what justifies lethal force, didn’t touch on the circumstances. It bases lethal force on the value of the hours of life you sacrificed to earn what was lost, implying that we are talking about life for life, an eye for an eye. I sympathize with that but cant use that reasoning to come up with a just system. The amount of life you lost could be zero. The entire justification is the circumstances. Maybe you forgot what you wrote and didn’t write, and expect people to read your mind.