- Dookieman12@piefed.socialEnglish2 months
If you see a snake coiling up and preparing to strike, do you wait until it bites you to stop it?
If you have a cold, do you wait until you’re in the hospital to take medicine?
When a man declares his intent to harm you, at that point, any violence against him becomes justified on the basis of self-defense. When a group of people declare their intent to harm all others, at what point does violence against that group become justified on the same basis?
- 2 months
I agree in general but slight nitpick:
When somebody declares intent to harm you, proportional violence becomes justified as self defence.
If you say you want to hit me on my pinky finger, I’m not justified in killing you. If you declare to kill or eradicate me, as the extreme right does to certain marginalised groups, a lot of different levels of violence are justified, including killing for the really severe cases.