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From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Self defense injustice in the UK
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:54:56 -0000 (UTC)
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On Jun 13, 2025 at 8:31:04 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

> On 6/12/2025 4:57 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
>>  On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 21:51:49 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
>>  wrote:
>>  
>>>  Pretty much, yeah. If you're breaking into my home, I presume you to be a
>>>  danger to me and mine. To do otherwise is suicidal. And regardless, even if
>>>  they're only there to steal and I can somehow know this as they're kicking
>>> in
>>>  my front door, I'm neither legally nor morally required to abandon my home
>>> to
>>>  thieves or stand aside and let them have their way with my property.
>>> 
>>>  And more to the point, if *you* value my TV more than your own life, why
>>>  should I do any different?
>>  
>>  Point taken and as you say you ought to have the benefit of the doubt
>>  when it comes to your own abode.
> 
> Absolutely.  In a world that values property more than life.

Once again, if the skell breaking into my house doesn't value his own life
more than my property, why should I?