Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic

• capital@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Me.

  And my wife, and daughter. People that, without the use of arms, will always be the weaker given it’s usually men who commit these crimes.

  You’re missing the point - this tool takes physical strength out of the equation for self defense purposes and you’re acting like it’s a bad thing.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah, so what you mean is that it’s okay for the strong to take advantage of the weak when you’re the strong one.

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    • capital@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Please define “take advantage of” in your comment. The entirety of my comments here have been in a self defense context. I don’t see how my owning and carrying a gun means I’m “taking advantage of” anyone.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Interesting how you want me to define terms but haven’t defined them yourself.

        You haven’t defined “the strong” or “the weak” or what you mean by “self-defense.”

        Maybe start defining your terms first before you demand it of others.

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No he’s saying that weapons permit people to be equally strong.

      Without weapons, big people get to control smaller people. With weapons, a person gets to modify their own susceptibility to being controlled.

      I’m guessing you’re a rather large person if you don’t understand this.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And yet they said they would shoot a starving person breaking into their home to steal a loaf of bread. That doesn’t sound like ‘equally strong’ to me.

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