Quote (theCrossbones @ Nov 3 2021 11:31am)
You think he really believed that or his mom has convinced him of this?
If you willingly put yourself in danger knowing it is volatile is the reaction then clearly? "self defense" (again his specific action is easily defendable) but he knowingly put himself in harms way and now acts like a victim.
again its a bizarre case to me where the shooting reaction is pretty cut and dry, but clouded by his specific and deliberate act of putting himself in a bad situation.
I do not know. None of us do, but what I'm saying is that it shouldn't be relevant.
I have a couple of things to add, just to be clear, I have no intentions of provoking anyone into a heated argument here or anything of that nature, just genuinely want yours and others opinions on this and to have an open minded discussion. Weird to have to put that disclaimer but I've noticed people tend to get very angry in this section too quickly.
I would first ask, in your opinion, would it be far off base to draw a comparison between what you're saying here to the "look at how she was dressed" or "why was she with those types of people" or any of those arguments that get tossed around (wrongly) in rape cases?
Then we would have to go to defining exactly what constitutes putting oneself in a situation so volatile or dangerous that you forfeit your right to self defense. As in where precisely is the line that when crossed eliminates any legal way to defend yourself, and who gets to define that in this case given there is no precedent for that. (Not looking to get arguments that Kyle didn't do this here, regardless of my beliefs on that, just looking for an exact point where you can no longer defend yourself whatsoever based on where you are or who you are around or however you want to define it)
Then, could we not use the exact same logic as an argument against the people on the other side of the case? They intentionally put themselves in a dangerous situation, and we're actively breaking laws leading up to the events. Surely that is on the same level if not worse?
Let me know what you think on these