06-03-2020, 07:43 PM
(06-03-2020, 04:34 PM)fredtoast Wrote: If you are inside a locked business or residence and someone breaks in then there is nothing immoral about shooting that person. People who break into occupied dwellings or businesses are assumed to be a threat.
There are certain gray areas, like if a person is inside a business with all the lights out laying in wait to kill someone that may not be a justified shooting, but if you break into place and you know, or should know, someone is in there then you are taking the risk of getting killed.
You can't shoot people for running away with your property, but you can shoot them fro breaking in on you.
Morality is subjective. From my point of view, even if I am in there and someone is breaking in, I'm not going to use deadly force unless they threaten me with a weapon, first. That is my morality. I don't consider the act of breaking in alone to be a threat to my person. This is where the law and morality differ in my book.
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