Comment by _fq4v
5 years ago
Completely agree with trump here honestly. Looting private business is not a form of protest against the police or the state for that matter.
5 years ago
Completely agree with trump here honestly. Looting private business is not a form of protest against the police or the state for that matter.
You should investigate the racial history of the phrase “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” and also consider whether property crime deserves loss of life.
> property crime deserves loss of life.
This is not an isolated incidence of property crime. This is utter destruction more akin to waging a total war against a particular district of Minneapolis. It's a form of terrorism.
Property -- in the form of business and services -- is essential to life. There is no absolute distinction between the two, despite what some pretend. These people are breaking property in their own community and then expect investors or the very government they're protesting to step back in and rebuild.
> Property -- in the form of business and services -- is essential to life.
While that can be true in a literal sense at times, I don't believe shop lifting electronics from Target would have that effect. Even the destruction of local businesses, while indeed terrorizing, is not lethal.
Violent rioting would be something that might require a lethal response, but stealing, looting, robbing, plundering -- no.
> These people are breaking property in their own community and then expect investors or the very government they're protesting to step back in and rebuild.
So you believe that what is right, instead of investing and rebuilding, is that these people should be killed?
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Really? People who steal should be shot?
No, but nor should they be allowed to get away with it. They should be stopped and charged with a crime. But in the process of being stopped and arrested, their chances of being shot are not negligible, especially if they resist.
If you steal a TV, yeah honestly. There's a difference between stealing food or money to feed yourself or provide for your family and stealing luxury goods. I have lots of sympathy for the former, very little for the latter. The latter is a form of terrorism meant to intimidate businesses many of whose owners are likely members of your own community.
I don't understand the modern desire to excuse theft. Theft is a form of terrorism; it is not okay, and is really high up there on the list of serious crimes that damage society.