Re: Thousands-strong mob attacks police station, burns man to death for alleged blasp
Try again. We already said that ALL non violent means have been exhausted. No one wants to use to lethal force if it can be avoided. Now you are tasked with defending the prisoner and preventing any further damage.
The mob is about to attack you, you have a machine gun, and everything else has failed, what are you going to do? Tick toc tick toc.
The consequences at this point are an after thought. In the present moment, your duty is to protect the prisoner and defeat the mob. Are you going to shoot to kill or are you going to step aside and let them kill the prisoner as they did? Give us a genuine answer.
Its easy to be a keyboard saint such that you are, but when you have actual responsibilities then you have to make choices. You would run only if you do NOT have the capacity to defend the place. HOWEVER, in our situation, YOU HAVE THE MEANS OF PREVENTING THE MOB, and that involveS shooting them dead. You as a police officer are allowed to and are required to stop this mob by all means. Now, decide are you going to employ the means to stop this mob, which means killing, or are you going to run instead and let them take the prisoner?
Try to think, your bleeding heart is affecting the your reasoning skills. All the non violent solutions you gave me I could have dictated to you. The question is of what you would do at the moment, not before or after. But at that moment, if you had the means,