> This person did not "rob" the bank. He tried asking the bank for money
Right so if I ask you nicely to donate with an AK-47 and I hold your family hostage, you are gonna make the same claim?
Right so if I ask you nicely to donate with an AK-47 and I hold your family hostage, you are gonna make the same claim?
If you come to me asking for your own money in such a situation, and I say - hard luck, I can't give them to you because I only have 5 ferraris now instead of 100 ferraris, and I kick you out humiliated... yeah I'd expect you to, at some point, snap!
It's easy to argue from an ivory tower, in a just society. But harder to imagine what it would be like when there's no justice anymore and there is no rule of law protecting your rights.
I think it's a moral question, and everyone will see this question from their viewpoint. Which is fair.
It's some sort of violent crime, but not robbery.
You have to steal stuff for it to be robbery.
So yes, I'll make the same claim. There is no point in saying that I was a hostage in a robbery if I was in a hostage situation for different reasons.