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What? Is that equivalent?

Swatting involves sending anxious humans with military grade weapons to an innocent person's house. Those anxious humans are trained to kill. If you Swat someone, and that person ends up dead, you're the reason they died -- and I fully agree it should be treated as a homicide, manslaughter at a minimum.

In your scenario, you are a hostage taker. You've taken both me and the other person hostage with the threat of murder...




American policemen lack moral fibre. They are too anxious to be entrusted their duties


Anxiety likely has more to do with how dangerous their job is than their moral fiber.


Fair enough, but I read the previous post as saying that simply knowing that your action could lead to someone else committing a crime made you guilty.




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