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Re:Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee by hyperlinerapp on Saturday September 19, 2026 @01:21PM (#49768395)
What’s wrong with that bumper sticker?

From my PoV, it seems odd someone would value someone else’s truck more than their own life!

Re:Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee by Phemist on Saturday September 19, 2026 @02:52PM (#49769198)
Nothing wrong indeed with the sticker that says "I value my life more than your truck". Unfortunately that is not the sticker the OP was talking about.
Re:Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee by hyperlinerapp on Saturday September 19, 2026 @11:42PM (#49772342)
My point is that the sticker that OP was talking about is perfectly fine, because who in their right mind would think the opposite?
Re:Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee by piva00 on Sunday September 20, 2026 @03:00AM (#49773196)
It's really hard to tell if you're playing dumb just to provoke a reaction or if you genuinely do not get the point.

Can you clarify?

Re:Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee by hyperlinerapp on Sunday September 20, 2026 @03:53PM (#49779407)
Lores said that: bumper sticker saying "my truck is worth more than your life."

My point is that that is a very sensible bumper sticker, because it only applies if someone thinks they want to steal the truck, clearly valuing their life less than the truck, proving the sticker’s point.

It’s a common sticker. People who are shot in a robbery (or their kin if they don’t survive) commonly claim “why would the victim who defended themselves value their stuff more than the thief’s life” without failing to consider the thief themselves valued their own life less than the stuff they were attempting to steal.

It’s a common sentiment in free places, those who values abiding citizens more than law breaking citizens.

Re:Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee by piva00 on Monday September 21, 2026 @03:03AM (#49783946)
> It’s a common sentiment in free places, those who values abiding citizens more than law breaking citizens.

Most free places value human life higher than stuff.

Re:Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee by hyperlinerapp on Monday September 21, 2026 @08:59AM (#49786743)
If someone can steal your stuff without you being able to act, then that is not a free place.
Re:Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee by SauciestGNU on Monday September 21, 2026 @10:16AM (#49787603)
Even in the United States it is generally not legal in most jurisdictions to use deadly force to prevent property crimes.
Re:Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee by hyperlinerapp on Monday September 21, 2026 @12:10PM (#49789171)
Most thieves are dumb. They come armed. All you have to look for is a minor threat, and you can show them some business.

Like this:

https://x.com/libs_ofchicago/status/2099992150532337702?s=46

Re:Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee by piva00 on Thursday September 24, 2026 @02:58AM (#49827168)
By that definition, what are the free places in the world then? Because a very, very minority of them allow stuff to possess higher value than a human life.

You should look into positive freedom vs negative freedom for a starter.

Re:Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee by hyperlinerapp on Friday September 25, 2026 @02:18PM (#49848098)
In America, that would be everyone’s own house plus every dark place where a phone may look like a gun plus every place where a thief comes armed, plus every place where the thief exercises violence and you fear for your life, to start.