Yeah as an American myself, let me tell you: These people are dipshits, but there’s enough of them to sway the discussion into both 1. It’s totally valid to try to kill a person over petty theft and 2. They will definitely will that fight every time. They have the most upvotes, so they must be right, right?? It couldn’t be that they’re collectively jackasses and Donald Trump represents their unrestrained fucking Id.

*citation needed

I literally am an American. I live amongst these mouth breathing knuckle dragging idiots daily. Trust me I know a little bit about how fucking stupid, vengeful, and thoughtless they are and how they all see themselves as an action hero in their own story that will somehow always come out on top.

Not for long with how Trump is fucking up trade with the rest of world and dollars and bonds aren’t looking to hot.

To prevent you from renting a new apartment, mostly. Go in with an eviction on your record and try to get a place and you’ll mostly just be denied.

He got that look in his eyes.

Mine:

• Pharmacogenomics
• Bo-Katan Kryze
• Katee Sackhoff
• The Alienist
• dd (Unix)

In a fun piece of trivia, I was looking up Katee Sackhoff because I was trying to find out who did the voice for Bitch Pudding on Robot Chicken and then laughed my ass off when I realized it was the same lady who played Bo-Katan Kryze in The Mandalorian. I really need a Robot Chicken sketch with Bo-Katan going all Bitch Pudding on the Mando now. BLAM!

The difference is the rock climbing involves an inanimate object, the rock face. You are a thinking being that can make decisions and are choosing to risk their life over a petty crime.

Says the clearly uneducated fuckwit. Good show. Also semantic only has one m.

But, reasonable moral thing to do.

We frankly are just going to continue to disagree on that point. Say you punch the assailant and they go down in one blow, cracking their head on the pavement and dying. Did they really deserve a death penalty for petty theft? An extrajudicial death penalty no less. I don’t think so. Thus, I don’t think it’s reasonably moral to risk it.

In another comment you talk about fascists taking over the world, yet here you are, spouting what a fascist would say in regards to private property, while a socialist would understand the difference between personal property and private property and understands the dangers of the latter. Get educated, schlub. You’re spouting the kind of idiocy that enabled the fascists to take over.

Also I’m in my forties living with cancer in the USA where the treatments cost $18k a month without insurance. Dear god I only wish I had mommy and daddy taking care of me.

I don’t know about you, but my wallet only holds plastic cards… All of which can be cancelled, replaced, and any money spent by the thief returned and restored. The only thing it takes up is a small amount of my personal time. So I really haven’t lost anything at all. I don’t know why you’re so geared up to fuck someone up over such a small inconvenience.

Lmao, you are a fucking tool.

No individual should be expected to use insurance to protect themselves from theft as a solution to it. That’s a crazy take.

Then I really don’t understand what you’re saying here. Insurance coupled with wiping your device remotely makes you whole and renders your device unusable to the person who stole it (sometimes it even leaves you with a nicer, more current device). It’s not like the police do much more to help an individual with theft, even when you can show them where your device is with Find My Device enabled. Sometimes you might get lucky and they’ll go retrieve it and allow you to press charges, but that’s pretty rare, frankly.

I still maintain this a better solution than trying to beat the shit out of someone, possibly failing and ending up hospitalized or dead yourself.

It feels like it’s the other way around, from my end. Natural disasters don’t stop happening, and crime doesn’t stop happening, ergo, having insurance for both is reasonable.

“I’m really not here to represent any candidate,” Paterson said.

“I’m just here to villify the one who actually won the fucking primary because fuck democracy, y’all. We own your asses, we call the shots, and like hell are we gonna let you people change that!”

We literally cannot have even one nice thing in this country. You best start believin’ in cyberpunk dystopias… because you’re in one.

Damn it Seven is such a classic film. Best film of the late 20th century.

Or maybe more people are really that stupid and easily entertained than we would like to admit.

Yet insurance for theft exists because it continues to be a thing that happens. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’m sorry but I’m not even going to pretend to be sorry about a pickpocket targeting normal people getting his (or her) ass beaten.

What about American tourists in a foreign nation that has been historically violently repressed via the American Military and economic shock treatment by American institutions? Those American tourists enabled their government and businesses to do that, via their votes and their labor for said businesses. In this respect they are not just “regular people” in a place like Mexico, Chile, Iran, Iraq, and so on.