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Jakyl25 posted...

My point is that your life is equally threatened by a single person who can credibly kill you as it is by a hooded collective who can credibly kill you.

it isn't.
go with the most extreme case - a guy with a gun. is a guy with a gun a major threat to your life? absolutely.
is it equally threatened as 10 people with guns? absolutely not. the threat is significantly higher. one person can change their mind in the first situation and hey, threat gone. nine people can choose to do nothing but one guy can decide fuck it, you're dead and now you're dead. they are not equal, in any way, and i do not know how you can think that.

this scenario is one man and you're comparing him to a collective of hooded/masked men and saying the threat isn't significantly different between these two. that's nonsense, the latter obviously is a much bigger threat. one guy yelling at you committing a violent act ain't the same as a bunch of people yelling at you, covering themselves up, and committing the same violent act. the latter is obviously much more dangerous, a much bigger threat, much more intimidating, and much more plausible to leading to escalation.

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