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If protesters are blocking a road, should it be legal to run them over if they begin attacking your vehicle?
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Anonymous 14w

Wtf why should it be legal

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Anonymous 14w

I think it should only be allowed if they cause purposeful damage to your vehicle or are threatening your life. Other than that there's nothing you can really do

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Anonymous 14w

Based on the current standards for any other type of deadly force, yes

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Anonymous 14w

If they attack your car, it’s fair game yes….

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Anonymous 14w

No. Self defense laws already cover any legitimate defense where it’s necessary for the protection of your life without excessive force, we don’t need other exceptions

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Anonymous 14w

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

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Anonymous 14w

Attack your car… no. Going to attack you yes.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 14w

If people are trying to open your doors or stepping on your car, your life is at risk But if you’re a butthole whos driving through em on purpose, then they should be prosecuted by the law

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 14w

That’s kind of the point.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 14w

Thats what insurance is for.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14w

The problem is, this law would be abused by buttholes who don’t like people protesting for basic rights peacefully. They’ll initiate a fight, then run them over.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 14w

And your rates go up because of it

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 14w

It’s pretty basic self defense.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 14w

You are unbelievably stupid.

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 14w

Fr #5 is stupid asf! It’s like saying, if someone breaks into your house,no. That’s what home insurance is for… LIKE NO YOU MORON! There’s a person IN THE CAR!

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 14w

“Thats what insurance is for” LMAO you are not a real person

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 14w

Any valid reason for self defense should be codified to prevent people being prosecuted when they are in the right

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 14w

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.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13w

Is your life actually at risk or are you just afraid? Because there’s a difference, and it’s a HUGE leap from breaking and entering into a vehicle to killing a person

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 13w

But a car is an inaccurate weapon. There’s a great risk, especially in a crowd, that you would hit someone who wasn’t putting you in danger, and then what?

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Anonymous replying to -> #13 13w

Sucks for them. You were standing in the middle of a road that wasn’t closed and a car was coming. GTFO of the way.

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Anonymous replying to -> #11 13w

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.

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 13w

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?

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Anonymous replying to -> #13 13w

It’s it reasonable to believe you might be subject to serious bodily harm then self-defense is 100% valid. I would say if people are swarming your car and trying to get in that qualifies. You’re shouldn’t be expected to know their exact motivations or future actions.

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Anonymous replying to -> #14 13w

*If it’s

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 13w

You don’t, and can’t be expected to, know what they are going to do. It’s not your responsibility to predict their behavior, it’s on them to control theirs.

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 13w

You don’t want to hear what I think about that tbh

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Anonymous replying to -> #13 13w

That’s not a huge leap, killing the people inside would literally be the next step. Why else would they be breaking into an occupied vehicle?

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 13w

If someone is standing in the middle of the road and you see that and choose to run them over then you are guilty of vehicular manslaughter or murder

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 13w

If a mob is standing in the middle of a road that is open to motor vehicles and shows signs of violence towards drivers, they should expect nothing but to be hit.

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 13w

You have the right to self defense if your life is in danger and you do not use force excessive of that which is needed to protect your life, in any other circumstance it is completely unjustified. If there is a violent mob in the middle of the road then turn the fuck around

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 13w

If there’s a violent mob in the middle of the road then put your foot flat to the floor. Fuck ‘em. They’ve forfeited their expectation of safety and shredded their social contract.

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 13w

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

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