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The title was a play on a vampire theme, which relates to the concepts I discussed in the article. But thank you for your unrelated counter-example.

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It's not unrelated. By your logic, had you taken precautions perhaps shot the intruder, you would have been "inviting evil".

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It is unrelated. The article is about social dynamics, and the ways in which moral errors open the door to greater evils--not about individual instances of criminal behavior. You basically read the title, thought of an example that countered the surface meaning of the title without any reference to what it referred to, and then claimed that is "my logic." Read the article for my logic.

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And you in fact did. People have been arrested and tried for shooting intruders. If you really want no intruders, make your house impenetrable.

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> People have been arrested and tried for shooting intruders.

Which is itself a sign that our judicial systems are slipping towards anarcho-tyranny.

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The very fact that there are rapist intruders running around is an example of the dynamic I laid out in the article: it is a sign that something has already gone very wrong.

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Rapists running around is the normal state of affairs. Times and places where that is not the case have historically been few and far between and have involved a powerful state with strong rule of law.

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We have different definitions of normality. I'm not talking about statistics.

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Agreed.

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I'm talking about history, you should really consider studying it.

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Misses the point again.

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Point out which part is confusing and I'll gladly simplify it for you.

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The point of the jargon is to obscure his flawed logic.

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Sayonara!

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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. Harrison appears to have fallen for it.

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Funny.

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