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RE: Censoring Steem Sites - Does It 'Protect' Victims, Enable Abusers, Both or Neither? We Need To Be Clear on This For Steem's Sake.
Perhaps the American jurisdiction is different to the British one, but I thought that everyone in both regions had the right to defend themselves in their own homes. I can think of several cases in Britain where people have killed intruders in their home and they were not prosecuted. I figured that the huge amount of guns available in the USA would mean that there was no problem with using them for self defense, what's the point in having them if you can't use them in that context?
You are "supposed to" be able to defend yourself.
But, lets say, in Kalifornia, if you shot a man crawling into your window, and he fell outside, than you just shot a person "outside of your house", meaning you committed assault, and attempted murder/murder.
And yes, people have gone to jail for defending themselves.
In even worse example is female/male laws.
In that same state of Kalifornia, if a woman is hitting you, you should be able to defend yourself, however, if you touch her, you have committed sexual abuse. And, when the cops are called, they will come to the house and arrest you, leaving her there. Even if it is your house.
Yes, there are cases where they will arrest the woman too, but they will always arrest the man.
So, figured out a way to defend yourself without touching her?
I can't speak for the laws in any particular state, but it is usually the case that such stupidity can be addressed carefully in reference to constitutional documents or human rights. Whether or not any particular 'court' or other part of the process honours real logic or not is another matter.
Although I do not advocate for such imbalanced, artificial hierarchies as we see with courts and nations, it is also true that in the example given of someone being shot and falling out of the house: I would be quite malicious for a court to bring a charge of murder and so it would require an absence of heart/courage/integrity on the part of the legal system operators for that to occur. I agree that it is extremely likely that such heartlessness will indeed be found there.
These were examples based on true stories. So, although i left out lots of details, and its a retelling thrice removed, it happened.