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Jakyl25 posted...

Youre really hammering hard the concept of potential to escalate, and in that sense, I agree with every word youre saying

yeah, because if i'm trying to compare direct threats that's a super important factor. it's not that what this guy did can't be considered a threat but it's just so drastically different i did a double take. i don't disagree with most of what you're saying exactly, we have a difference of opinion of where the line should be, but that sentence just threw me off completely because it seemed like too much of an exaggeration. sorry if i came off like a dick, was a gut reaction of "oh no not him too."

Jakyl25 posted...

In the moment though, I dont feel any safer knowing theres one guy outside who wants me dead than I would knowing there were 100 guys outside who want me dead, assuming both threats were equally as credible

would feel much less safe with the 100 guys.
definitely the 100 guys.
with one guy you can get cops on him pretty easily or he can be talked down or whatever else. even if the worst happens and he's armed, the damage he can do is limited by virtue of being one guy. yes it can be a lot but compared to 100 armed guys...
with 100 guys uhhhh i'm out. i don't think there's many ways to make this an equally credible threat without having the 1 guy extremely violent. it just takes 1 asshole and with 100 of them it means you can be 99% safe and equally as bad as the 1 guy. or to simplify it, one scenario involves a cop car, the other involves an armed police line.

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