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If you see a snake coiling up and preparing to strike, do you wait until it bites you to stop it?
If you have a cold, do you wait until you’re in the hospital to take medicine?
When a man declares his intent to harm you, at that point, any violence against him becomes justified on the basis of self-defense. When a group of people declare their intent to harm all others, at what point does violence against that group become justified on the same basis?
So, fun and slightly unrelated story:
In the late 80s, when I was a teen, we were driving through the Arizona desert to Mexico and there was this big stretch where there was just nothing. No radio, no rest stops, literally nothing. And I had to pee really bad.
So we pulled over for me to do my business. It was an open desert with nothing to hide behind, so I went a bit from the road and found the biggest bush I could. It was dead and not full enough for much privacy, but far enough that I thought it gave enough cover. So I squatted and pulled down my shorts, and heard a really loud rattle. I didn’t even think. Just scrambled back towards the car, butt naked to the sky, scraping my knees in the dirt. Not even sure when or how I pulled up my shorts.
I’d nearly pissed on a rattlesnake. The adults reassured me that they rattle instead of bite, so I wasn’t in real danger. They thought it was hilarious. I did not.
Sometimes you don’t think, you just do what you can do.
do what you can do
Yeah! Vote blue no matter who!
I agree in general but slight nitpick:
When somebody declares intent to harm you, proportional violence becomes justified as self defence.
If you say you want to hit me on my pinky finger, I’m not justified in killing you. If you declare to kill or eradicate me, as the extreme right does to certain marginalised groups, a lot of different levels of violence are justified, including killing for the really severe cases.
If you see a snake coiling up and preparing to strike, do you wait until it bites you to stop it?
Generally speaking, snakes only attack when they feel threatened.
But humans attack purely for the joy of killing.
Venom.
That depends.is this hypothetical man to my right or to my left?
“we called the dog Indiana!”
Wait is he using an RPG in ehat was supposed to be WW2 era north Africa??
Panzerfaust.
That’s an RPG. I know what a panzerfaust looks like. You could probably get the prop depratment to make you a fake panzerfaust for cheaper than you could buy a real rpg7 with a dummy round. The faust is literally just a tube with a shaped charge at the end.
Is that new angle of the Kirk shooting?
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
The next shot is he backs down because they threaten his love interest
cmbabul@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
A gif of Indy punching one of the many Nazis he punched would’ve been better
D_C@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
It’s not a gif, but you get the idea.
Punching Nazis
Hamartia@lemmy.world 3 days ago
For your average extreme centrist that’s their coupling to hegemonic power
too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Nah, he threatens to blow up the Ark if they don’t release her. They call his bluff and take him prisoner, too.