• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    If a person deliberately sets themselves on fire, they are fairly committed to hurting only them and no one else. Ever burn yourself? You know that blinding feeling and instant, involuntary reaction to get away from the thing burning you? Imagine that all over your body, the sensation of “get the fuck away” coming from everywhere. You aren’t going to have clear minded murder as your next agenda. It’s going to be either get water or die.

    Pointing a gun at a person who is trying to die is stupid and shows the only way the gun weilder can understand is to use their fear and threaten something that is clearly not threatening. If you believe that someone who wants to die and is trying to do it to themselves, is a threat, you’re part of the problem.

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      5 months ago

      the sensation of “get the fuck away” coming from everywhere. You aren’t going to have clear minded murder as your next agenda

      Yeah get the fuck away, so you run, likely toward bystanders, or someone who could help. Who you would get accelerant on and injure or kill with you by mistake.

      Why did you bring murder up? I never said nor implied that at all. People seek help when they are in danger, they aren’t thinking straight as you said, they aren’t going to realize they would hurt someone seeking help for being you know, on fucking fire. Every situation is unique, obviously you don’t raise a gun at someone on a bridge. But someone on fire who very likely will spook. Yeah, sorry it’s the right call I those cases.

      You also don’t know all the details at the time, it’s great to be able to say what you say in hind sight with the information coming after. At that time no one know the persons intent, so yeah, you don’t know they didn’t have murder on their mind either. Until after….