To the people that said yes, I’m against unpeaceful protests that block illegally the roads, too, but it’s not an eye for an eye if they attack your vehicle. If they attack your vehicle, you can call the cops and sue them, but you don’t inflict more physical damage in the situation. The point of the legal system is to solve and serve justice for harm to protect us, you can’t fall into these hypocritical traps
that’s not how law works. If we start identifying a list of specific examples of self defense, that implies that things that aren’t on that list, aren’t self defense. If this situation somehow happens, the driver would go to court for murder or manslaughter, and their *defense* would be that they acted in self defense and they had no other options. This argument would probably succeed, and they wouldn’t go to prison, but it definitely shouldn’t be made a law that you can’t be tried for it.
You are dumb as hell. If they are attacking your car, you have absolutely no way of knowing whether or not they intend to harm you as well. You can’t expect someone to sit in their car while a clearly violent and dangerous mob is directly attacking the only think protecting their body from the mob. By the time they get through the car, it’s far too late.
Self defense law already covers any situstion where it is necessary for self defense, any other rule put in place would only be relevant in a scenario where it would not be able to be successfully defended as self defense Do you see any circumstances that aren’t self defense or defense of another that you think should it should be legally justifiable for someone to kill you with their car?
The social contract includes rules for how you respond to violent mobs, it’s not a contract between you and them but between each individual and the society they live in. We are a society with laws are not “you can kill anyone as soon as they show signs of violence.” If they were, someone could kill you when you were going to run those people over