Posted on Dec 2, 2021
Of Arms and the Law: Revolt against proportionality in self-defence
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Because any other legal conclusions is disastrous. If we allow the law to value one life over another, everything becomes relevant and questionable.
Sure, he was robbing you. But the day before he saved 73 schoolchildren from a burning bus. And yesterday you cheated on your taxes. Now his life is more valuable than yours, therefore you have a diminished right to self-defense. Etc.
In the eyes of the law, all lives MUST be equal, lest we get into a ridiculous, complex, and SUBJECTIVE valuation which has no REAL bearing on whether or not you were justified - in that moment, in those circumstances, and at that location - in firing.
Sure, he was robbing you. But the day before he saved 73 schoolchildren from a burning bus. And yesterday you cheated on your taxes. Now his life is more valuable than yours, therefore you have a diminished right to self-defense. Etc.
In the eyes of the law, all lives MUST be equal, lest we get into a ridiculous, complex, and SUBJECTIVE valuation which has no REAL bearing on whether or not you were justified - in that moment, in those circumstances, and at that location - in firing.
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