A "survival tactic" based off of...
Come on, you can do this.
On second thought, if your tactic is trying to pick off random members of a particular group on order to scare or intimidate of the larger group in a scenario with little chance of you coming out unscathed, I'm pretty sure we have a different word other than survival for that...
Based off of seeing their livelihood and community go-up in smoke. How is this hard to understand or empathize with. I literally see protesters understanding this POV.
Not one person can ever point to me saying a single thing about the 3rd precinct going up in flames. If I had read about a murder a 100 years ago capping off a string of police brutality during the Spanish flu, and the response was that the townsfolk burnt down the freaking constable's office, I wouldn't bat an eye.
The idea that destroying small, community owned business, or even a chain-store like Target for that matter is in any way productive, or will rectify anything is flying in the face of demonstrated recent history. The arguments I've seen to counter this are either emotionally-appealing misdirects (The "valuing property over lives" gambit), or are wholly unpersuasive otherwise.
How's Ferguson recovered since their city went up in flames based on false narrative? C'mon, you can do this.
If your livelihood goes up in flames, that's what insurance is for.
[insert Aaron Rodgers state farm commercial here]
No offense MB, but this is one of those arguments that is wholly unpersuasive.
You have no idea, especially in light of the pandemic when, where, or how these businesses are going to have their damage mitigated by an insurance company, who's job is actually not to pay out claims, but make and retain as much money as possible.
But you can be assured that the grand majority off those businesses will not be returning to the communities they once served, and the only people left with the fallout economically and socially of the depression that naturally comes when your excrement is burned to the ground and commerce bounces, are the residents.
That's without getting into how objectionable this attitude is that you can just cut someone a check for a lifetime of their sweat equity and tell them to do something else because their business got burnt down in an entirely preventable situation that was no fault of their own.
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