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I've often read survivalists saying how in a social breakdown dystopia they would shoot people to protect their food. I wouldn't.
But what about sick people with a lethal contagious disease for which if infected your entire family and you die? And what level of risk?
This next "To American With Love" disease from China - as happens every year - is claimed to only have a 2% lethality rate but is extremely contagious and easily passed to others. What if the lethality is higher? Much higher? And it has gone pandemic (wide spread?)
You are in public. You HAD to go somewhere - and a coughing beggar or beggars are approaching you. They won't stop. You can't outrun them. If they get to you? The odds are 5%, 10%, 20%, 30% 50%, 75% that you will die - and if you ever return to your family you'll kill them. So, is there a threshold you can shot someone who may kill you with a pandemic known killer disease?
Or, another example, you know someone is HIV/AIDS positive. This person is attacking, trying to bite and fight you. Would be justifiable self defense to shoot that person if you can't escape/outrun that person trying to bite you? What if the person says "I'm going to bite you and give you AIDS." Can you shoot that person to prevent it, or are you obligated to let yourself be infected with AIDS or some other passable deadly incurable disease?
How great does the risk have to be? What self defense rights do you have to defend yourself from someone(s) who recklessly, stupidly, in their own desperation or deliberately infecting you/your family etc with an easily passed incurable disease with a high rate of lethality?
But what about sick people with a lethal contagious disease for which if infected your entire family and you die? And what level of risk?
This next "To American With Love" disease from China - as happens every year - is claimed to only have a 2% lethality rate but is extremely contagious and easily passed to others. What if the lethality is higher? Much higher? And it has gone pandemic (wide spread?)
You are in public. You HAD to go somewhere - and a coughing beggar or beggars are approaching you. They won't stop. You can't outrun them. If they get to you? The odds are 5%, 10%, 20%, 30% 50%, 75% that you will die - and if you ever return to your family you'll kill them. So, is there a threshold you can shot someone who may kill you with a pandemic known killer disease?
Or, another example, you know someone is HIV/AIDS positive. This person is attacking, trying to bite and fight you. Would be justifiable self defense to shoot that person if you can't escape/outrun that person trying to bite you? What if the person says "I'm going to bite you and give you AIDS." Can you shoot that person to prevent it, or are you obligated to let yourself be infected with AIDS or some other passable deadly incurable disease?
How great does the risk have to be? What self defense rights do you have to defend yourself from someone(s) who recklessly, stupidly, in their own desperation or deliberately infecting you/your family etc with an easily passed incurable disease with a high rate of lethality?
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