Pretty much. That was the source of my outrage. — James Riley
You're all trees, sushi, and no forest. Too many questions fallacy. Moving the goal posts fallacy. Etc. Like many, your complexity-blindness bias trumps defeasible reasoning. I'm done. On political and ethical grounds, I'm opposed to, in effect, granting self-deputized civilians an unconditional "license to kill". You, like many others, disagree with my (and prosecutors') argument that 'Rittenhause forfeited "self-defense" by deliberately (by his own account) putting himself in danger'. Okay. Good luck with that. :shade:↪I like sushi Without missing the forest for the trees, try thinking through this ... — 180 Proof
There is nothing ‘heroic’ about what he did. — I like sushi
or every single thing he did that night was heroic — Miller
Can't imagine the outcome would have been the same with a young black male carrying a weapon, either on the streets or in court. — Xtrix
kyle was pepper sprayed by the police when he tried to turn himself in — Miller
The job of the police is to provide security for citizens — Outlander
You think a skateboard to the head cant kill someone? wow. let me use a skateboard to your head then. — Miller
The distinction between R and an actual child, is that the child is under the authority of another, it's guardian, while R is under no authority but his own.Rittenhouse is not 17 years old, he's much, much younger than he looks. Children are said to be innocent; their actions, no matter how heinous, are to be forgiven - they don't know any better. — TheMadFool
No effin' doubt. E.g. during a traffic stop a cop killed Philando Castile, a black man, when he informed the officer he had a firearm in his glove compartment which he was licensed to carry. Cop was acquitted and the municipality paid a wrongful death settlement to Mr. Castile's family.Had he been black, he would have been shot down as soon as the AR went to port arms, if not before. — James Riley
The arbitrariness of the age of majority is regularly subverted by trial of minors as adults when that is called for. Myself, I feel the age of majority should be much lower than it is.At the time, R was a 17 y/o minor dependent living at home with his guardian... — 180 Proof
The distinction between R and an actual child, is that the child is under the authority of another, it's guardian, while R is under no authority but his own — Michael Zwingli
No, but a child always has a guardian in this society. Unless the child lives outside of regular society, as a runaway in homeless camps, for instance, then it is not allowed to exist without a guardian by law.a guardianless child is an adult. — TheMadFool
but a child always has a guardian in this society. — Michael Zwingli
Try watching large portions of the actual trial. He was clearly not guilty and the guy he shot (who didn’t die) also said so. — I like sushi
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