06-30-2020, 09:37 AM
(06-30-2020, 12:24 AM)Ninurta Wrote: That's a fact. I had this conversation with some snowflakes on FB a couple of weeks ago. They were aghast that I would just plow right through them. Yeah, well, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. They claimed it would be "murder", and I pointed out that self defense is not "murder". They claimed they were "peacefully" protesting. I pointed out that at the precise point they unlawfully detained me on a public thoroughfare, it ceased being "peaceful".
Then they went back to the "murder" argument. So I informed them that a 1) a jury would determine that, and they would not be there to present their side of the story, and 2) even if I did manage to mishandle my defense so badly that I got life in prison, at my age a "life sentence" was no longer the deterrent it used to be, and again they would not be there to gloat over it.
The upshot is, there are folks out there who will kill you dead for screwing around with them, and there is no power currently on Earth that will bring you back from the dead - once you're dead, you're permanently dead. No do-overs. Life is not a video game, there are no respawns. The simplest solution is not to screw around with folks, and if they couldn't comprehend that, they get what they get.
Their parting shot was a weak "it's still murder..." and mine was "doesn't matter - it won't resurrect you no matter what you call it".
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I just cannot get over how disconnected they are from reality. I can't comprehend how they couldn't realize the truth of what you were saying. And your point about "folks out there who will kill you dead for screwing around with them"? There really are. How can they not know this? They've never met any? What must it be like to have lived such a sheltered life?