Re: Joe Horn?
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"Worth" death? No. Acceptable to stop this? Maybe. And in the case of the engagement ring I made a point to use something priceless, not merely worth a few K.
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Again, where is the line? Is it only something "priceless." I think certain pictures of my children are priceless and I no longer have negatives or digital images of them. Should I be able to kill someone who attempts to take them?
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I would say yes. In ACland society would make the final decision on this though.
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So if I leave banana peels around my house in the hopes that any intruders will slip on one and break their neck and it somehow actually happens, I should go to jail for murder? Check!
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Maybe, maybe not. One of the (obvious) factors a court would look at is the foreseeability/likelihood of serious injury/death resulting from your trap. One of the many ways a spring-gun is very different from a banana is the foreseeability of injuries it might cause (really, probably the only way a spring-gun is different from a banana.)
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Slipping and breaking your skull is a forseeable injury.
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