"Defining violence in terms of property—that basically nullifies the whole notion that life is sacred. People who want to elevate property to the same level of importance as life are so absurd as to be self-nullifying."
So if destroying property to make a political point is OK, then it would be fine to burn down this guy's house and blow up his car? Somehow I don't think he'd see it in the same light... =)
"So if destroying property to make a political point is OK, then it would be fine to burn down this guy's house and blow up his car?"
It is a valid means of political discourse in Minnesota ---- if you're a Democrat (reference to destroyed yard signs, road rage, cars vandalized, a front deck of a residence torched in Richfield, and so on.).
I had the same thought.
In the Old West horse thieving was a hanging offense, because you were stealing a man's means of feeding himself.
This guy had made my "kick the bejeez out of him on sight" list.