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Originally Posted by Greenhat
I'm not King, will never be King, and have absolutely no desire to inflict my value system on others.
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Understood. However, my point was that a blanket statement such as "lethal force should be authorized to protect proporty" is useless unless we can find a practical way to implement it and codify it into law.
We all can see that there are very undesireable consequences to authorizing lethal forces in the case of all thefts (juveniles, extremely minor or petty thefts), so we need to hash out a workable law if we want it to be taken seriously. Nobody wants their 13 year old to be shot and killed for pocketing a peice of Double Bubble in a convenience store, so where do we draw the line?
If we cannot or will not come up with something practical, then we have to look at the theory itself as unreasonable.