10-29-2021, 01:31 PM
(10-29-2021, 01:02 PM)jj22 Wrote: Oh but it does. You just are okay with it. Let the shoe be on the other foot. I come to your house, start a fight with you in your yard, and then kill you and claim self defense when you were unarmed all because you threw something at me?!
This is an apples and bananas comparison. Coming to someone's house to initiate a confrontation is in no way analogous to coming to a city to counter protest.
Quote:If politics weren't involved people would side with you over the guy who came to you and killed you. That is undeniable. I do have the right to come to you tho and go anywhere I want as you say, so are you saying that would be my right to have killed you?
Again, your analogy is horribly flawed as there is an immense difference between coming to someone's private residence to initiate a confrontation and going to a public area to counter protest. Using your analogy anyone coming to counter protest anything, ever, is free game to assault with impunity because they "shouldn't be there".
Quote:We have to be careful what we accept as right just because it doesn't happen to us. One day it may. And big picture thinkers understand that. It's why slavery for example was "legal" but didn't make it right and thankfully people didn't just except it for too long (they did for over 200 years) as such when they knew if it was them they wouldn't.
Here's what you keep ignoring, Kyle was the one who was attacked. If he had initiated a physical confrontation then I'd be saying to throw the book at him. But you are, and must be, entitled to defend you person from an aggressor trying to harm you. I really don't know any simpler way to describe to you just how wrong your position on this issue is.
As for the race angle, and we're deep in the realm of speculation here, I would be saying the exact same things if Rittenhouse was black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American etc. You want to speculate how different the response of the criminal justice system would be? Could they do worse than charging a minor in adult court for 1st degree murder?
Sincerely, I think we're at the point of diminishing returns here. If you still persist in this demonstrably flawed position there's really nothing left to debate. And I don't say that in a mean spirited fashion.
