Re: Blame Syndrome

And you used to be able to use whatever force necessary to stop them from stealing your stuff. Now if they broke in the dead of night and you found them in the living room and shot them, you'd probably be in trouble and if they lived they would likely be able to sue you and win.

And I know a number of people local to me who still never lock their homes, whether they are there are not. No thanks. I usually even lock door when I'm here alone even though anyone coming in uninvited wouldn't make it far before they met "the dog."


Kathycarp wrote:
There *used* to be a time and place in America when one *could* leave doors open, leave possessions on porch, etc and it wasn't called negligence. If anyone came on your property and stole them, he was called a thief.

I was talking with a man in Belize after our house burned down and I was complaining that we had saved very little from that fire, our "hurricane plywood" being one thing that was saved. Only to be stolen by thieves. This man told me that his sister had a house fire not long before, and people were salvaging her few things from the burning house, running back and forth from the street to the house with her possessions. He said that every trip they took, they found that thieves had taken what they had just left on the previous trip.

Anyone who steals is a thief. One could look back at every situation and say, "well, we should have locked the plywood up in someone else's house" or "we should have left one person on the street to protect her household things", BUT the bottom line is a thief is a thief, and the person whose property he/she stole is a victim of thievery.

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