GlasgowTitan I'm sorry about your car
Man speaks sense. I'd rather loose any car and suffer pricier insurance for 5 years than put my wife or kids at risk
I've always been uncomfortable with this line of thought, as logical and sensible as it may be. (not the btg about your wife and kids exactly, I understand that)
I honestly don't know what I would do if I were put into said situation and I don't think I would until I was actually in it and faced with the cold hard reality.
Maybe I have spent too many years reading fantasy books, and watching Star Trek ...but it seems to me to be the epitome of cowardice to accept such an injustice like that, to allow some scum-bags to do this to you and to accept it because you are afraid they might hurt you.
My instinct, my gut reaction says fight them ...to the death if necessary. At least you will have either forced them to commit crimes far beyond burglary and hopefully face the justice of the courts and gone out fighting yourself ...or stopped them, possibly killed them and be facing prison yourself.
But is facing prison with the knowledge that you did your all to protect yourself and deliver justice to the unjust worse than living free with the memory of your cowardice and weakness ? ...if you had kids, what kind of legacy do you want to leave them ? ...the story you tell them yourself about how Daddy hid under the bed when the criminals came to take his belongings ...or have their mother tell them about how you heroically fought and died in an effort to defend what is right and true.
I think society sidelines true heroism these days, with modern justice systems and insurance. What would you rather read about in a book? ...life is not a story you read maybe, but it is one that you live and hopefully look back on.
I don't know, but this is what runs through my mind everytime I read something like this. I don't really care if people think it's daft, I think it has merit and I believe the main reason more people wouldn't do this is because society does not make it easy to do without being unjustly punished for defending their homes, their families and themselves ...as it has with people before.
As I said though, would I do this? ...I really don't know and wouldn't know until I faced it, so I can't say. I don't have a wife and kids to think about though.
And I am well aware that I am being laughed at by all sorts of people reading this right now, but the way criminals are allowed to get away with all sorts and the expense of good people, law abiding citizens ...it just makes my blood boil. And people rolling over for it also annoys me, although I can understand it and I might do it too, I don't know.
So take your 'entirely' serious hats of a moment, step back and think about it. Even if you wouldn't do it, I bet it makes you smile. I am mostly thinking out loud in this post, so it may not read exactly as I would like, and some things are no doubt unclear, they are to me too, it's just what started running through my mind really.
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Or in the case of MMA, dryhump your opponent to death.
