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It's always curious to me how property damage weighs the same or worse than violence against real humans.

I've had people tell me with a straight face that broken windows make one group just as bad as the group threatening violence based on ethnic lines. I don't get it.

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Worse may not be part of the calculation. There are some people who are against violence and property destruction and antisocial activity full stop.

It’s also curious to me why people espousing freedom hand waive property destruction

If someone were to come to my workplace and smash a window, for example, I think it's pretty fair to interpret that as a threat that they might smash the people working there next.

do you think someone who sprays paint in a military jet engine is about to force open your mouth and spray you full of paint?

No. I also think it's a big deal, but attacking military assets is bad for completely different reasons than breaking windows in my neighborhood.

itll make more sense if you consider that the right wing has been selling the idea that there is only one fredom/right - property ownership under capitalism

and with that hayek setup, the property isore important than the life. you can be tortured, imprisoned and murdered, but as long as you still own a factory, you are a free man.

its silly, buts its the driving idea behind western culture for the past 40-50 years or so

Ahh yes, the invention of property rights in 1980. Dreadful year that was.

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