gcj post making fun of this man
Americans have a deep-seated deranged longing to be in a situation where absolute brutality can be hypothetically justified. Self-defense violence fantasies continue to be unhinged. There’s a shitload of supportive comments in the AMA too.
I should say; If you're going to rob someone there is still some social contract shit incumbent on you. You need to be a good robber. If you're holding a knife to someone's gut or have a loaded gun pointed at someone's head you're not robinhood anymore. You're directly and immediately threatening their life and they're well within their rights to fight you with no regard for your safety.
Yes, you should comply with a robber and just give them whatever they want, but the robber has an obligation to take your safety seriously while they're robbing you. It's a two way street. We're all getting fucked by the system but you want to be robin hood you can't be a menace to other poor people.
A threat to me in any context is a binary choice between them or me. I choose me. It's the same moral logic that I employ any time a hunter is mauled to death by the animal they chose to hunt. Fuck 'em, learning occurred.