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by vdqtp3 1756 days ago
> You're trying to justify violating the sanctity of life in response to a violation of the sanctity of property.

Eviction by force is not the same as murdering someone for squatting. You're conflating the two.

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He's suggesting that it's his right to do so. That's what is meant by his referring to action outside the law. It's the natural conclusion to such action, because for the people being evicted, the loss of shelter can be tantamount to loss of life.

There is no world in which violence is seen as an appropriate tool to force an eviction where people do not die resisting eviction.

Not to mention, property doesn't come for free. I as a middle-class person may have poured years of my sweat and blood into my property and then someone can waltz in and claim my hard work for their own with a hand-wavy "I can't afford market price for rent here"