• tankfox@midwest.social
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    3 days ago

    Yeah but we’re not talking about things here, we’re talking about people coming up and taking from you, which is an act of violence to which one should certainly expect a response. Don’t like the response? Keep your hands to yourself, simple as that.

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      3 days ago

      Theft is not violence just like property damage isn’t violence and it’s silliness to pretend they are.

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        If I’m holding something and someone comes up to me to try to take it from me, that’s violence. If I put my wallet in a locker, then you come by after I leave and break into the locker, that’s theft and not violence. If I set a booby trap in the locker I would be at fault because an innocent could get hurt, but if I catch your hand in my pocket and twist it off you got what was coming to you.

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        It’s one thing to have money or other items stolen but passports, phones, that can have serious consequences. Some people also have valuable photos in their wallet. Those thieves deserve a proper beating or even one or two fingers cut off. Fuck that scum.

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          I don’t disagree with what you’ve said and I don’t see it as contradictory to what I’ve said.

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        It is like sticking your hand up sometimes skirt or demanding someone gives you their wallet with an implied threat, or purse snatching, or breaking in whilst someone is home.

        It is imposing on the other parties dignity such that they have to accept your transgression to their own dimishment or defend themselves and said dignity.

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      Yeah yeah let’s punch gypsies. Killing people over things is ahrborrent.

      Bet you’re a yank lmao. Scum

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        1. Punching is usually non-lethal.
        2. Not all Yanks are alike.
        3. Intentionally killing over things is certainly abhorrent, but physically protecting your personal property is not necessarily a bad thing. We don’t support the government conducting unlaw search and seizures, why would we accept that from individuals? Especially when law enforcement is either (a) unlikely to be successful at returning your property, especially cash money, and (b) unwilling to even try.
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        No, not over things. I’m not talking about laying a trap to protect a thing. I’m talking about being robbed. I do not care what motivates the attacker if they attack me on the street, that’s why we have carry permits; so everyone can know up front that street robbery is risking your life for nickles.

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        Gypsies?

        Yank?

        Cry harder, Europoor

        lol j/k, i don’t care where you’re from, and Europe is largely an awesome continent full of quite lovely people. Except for you. You’re not just an ass, but a prejudiced one. Gypsies? Really? And all Yanks are murderers? It’s only mostly murderers over here

        I do agree with you on one thing though. Killing people over stuff is wrong. Thieves only deserve a beating. You just got to make them cry. Real, bubbly tears. Make em regret the decision and think harder before doing it again. Also, bring back corporal punishment in schools. And it’s pronounced “gif”