Re:FBI used Etsy, LinkedIn to make arrest in torching of Phi...
by SauciestGNU on Thursday June 18, 2020 @07:11PM
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Sure, yes I agree with your pillaging the countryside example. I would qualify that though by asserting that the pillaging army is not threatening just property but the ability of the victims to survive. So yes there is a threshold of destruction that threatens life itself, and that would probably justifiably be met with deadly force.
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Re:FBI used Etsy, LinkedIn to make arrest in torching of Phi...
by pmiller2 on Thursday June 18, 2020 @07:19PM
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I couldn't have said it better myself. Looting some stores, burning down a couple police stations, and torching some police cruisers doesn't even come close to the threshold where violent retaliation is necessary. Scorched earth, mass destruction doesn't even come close to comparing to the scale of the protests going on right now. It's literally comparing war to a citizens' demonstration.