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In reply to the discussion: My property is never worth more than a person's life. [View all]TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)Their job, if they value their life is to not to commit suicide by home invasion.
They should expect they are committing suicide if they try to take from me what I need to live too, I won't accept risk of loss of shelter, loss of transportation that allows me to work, the money I have to feed myself if I can help it.
I don't apologize for that either.
Beyond that one is not necessarily committing suicide but they are still playing with fire by making an effort to enslave me, stealing the fruits of my labor without compensation is pushing it. I don't think folks have a right to what I have struggled and sacrificed for and cannot easily replace with the snap of my fingers.
I may not respond to such actions with deadly force but I'm not going to blame someone who does much either and if one uses the threat of violence to get their way then all bets are off, suicide by armed robbery.
You can't encourage marauders by giving them immunity to plunder and you can't start pretending we are not in a capitalist system where folks trade away the days of their lives in exchange for what they have from the essentials to survival to that which give us semblance of quality of life. Most of us are a paycheck or two from being deprived of shelter, not being able to keep utilities, food, hell...we have to pay for fucking water.
Hollering about calling the police is meaningless since most crimes go unsolved and even if they are solved the other person is punished but the victim is not made whole.
I tend to think that if you are concerned about this kind of thing then your energy is better used in support of a living wage, a quality safety net, ending the drug war, and at least defanging capitalism so no one is desperate to the point of depravity and anyone in such a position was in it for greed not need rather than trying to make the world safer for muggers and armed robbers to do their thing and encouraging poor on poor crime while pretending the state will in anyway rectify the situation.