I don't post much, if at all, but users in the posts below have seen fit to advocate violence using incorrect interpretations of the law. I've got beef, hopefully you've got salt, so lets make a bad metaphor and do this.
The Post In Question
Summary: It's on the front page, if you haven't seen it already. Basically; users cousin comes home to people trashing her house. She finds out these people were hired by the bank to sell everything in the house, because it was foreclosed on. The problem here is that this company is at the wrong house. They won't leave until the Sheriff comes.
Why the salt?: Its a shitty situation, and it sucks this happened to this users cousin, I'm not arguing that. However, reddit loves its justice boner, and when there is no report of justice by OP, they have to find someway to keep that one-eyed cyclopes at attention and ready for vengeance to offer that sweet, sweet release. What's the best way to assuage that burning desire for such justice? Promote good old fashioned violence of course! But reddit is reasonable right? So they better use some 100% knowledge about legal matters to justify it all.
- Exhibit A - Enter castle doctrine stage right.
- Exhibit B - Castle doctrine means you are automatically right. Circumstances? Not important. Investigation? Not needed. Due Process? Fuck off.
- Exhibit C - Why are you guys even talking about castle doctrine? You have the right to kill simply because that's your property!
Additional Details: OP stated in the post this happened in Ohio, so while I know defense of property is allowed on a circumstantial basis in some states, it doesn't apply here. Now, I'm not saying Castle Doctrine can't apply here at all, rather, people's interpretation of the law just isn't right. There are some key details missing from OPs story that would shed more light as to whether or his cousin felt threatened. OP's cousin did the right thing by calling the police, and clearly the company hired by the bank made a mega mistake and should be held liable.
Closing Statements: A large group of users on this site, almost daily, recommend and upvote recommendations for violent responses to everything. Any perceived dick move by any person, regardless of context, lack of details, or extenuating circumstances is met by a call for justice. But not justice in that boring and procedural legal sense, rather, justice in the "Beat the shit out of and/or kill the fuckers" sense. If people get pissed by what's on this site, that's their right, but dammit, do they have to tell people they are legally allowed to start shooting based on laws they don't fully understand?
Maybe I'm just cranky. Maybe I'm too harsh. Maybe I don't know how to wrap this up and I'm using self deprecating humor because I can't close. I don't know. What I do know is this: I've run out of things to say.
TL;DR: I have feelings and that makes me right.
ここには何もないようです