Zimmerman verdict: Not Guilty.

[Rahul]

Funny that you don't include the most obvious choice:

4) Report this obviously unstable and uncivilized individual to the authorities for a terrorist threat.

Actually later in the post I do specifically mentioning that I could have called the cops because he threatened me.

But let me clue you in here. This happened around 1991. A) I would have had to leave the neighborhood anyway to go find a payphone (no cell phones) and B) "Terrorist" threat terminology didn't come into our legal banter until around the 911 attacks about a decade later.

It didn't matter that much to me. I really didn't give a fuck.

If everyone accepted your approach, we'd live in a terrible society where we simply allowed people to bully and harrass others simply because they didn't like something they were doing.

If I'm feeling like an asshole I can walk up to anyone in America, including you, and say whatever the fuck I want to you. And you can do the same to me.

It's always been that way.

You can kid yourself all you want, but you wouldn't like the society that you are suggesting that you are so okay with right now. In that society, anyone could approach you at any time and question what you are doing and why you are doing it.

That is our society. It's the way our society has always been. You've never noticed this? Where the fuck do you live?

And, if they don't like your answers, they could take aggressive action against you.

No they can't. Well, they can but later when the police get involved they're going to have problems. If they physically assault me they are breaking the law.

That's been the law as long as I've been alive.

Right now you live in a society where you only have to answer to the proper authorities. You can go wherever you want and do whatever you want as long those activities don't violate the rights of others.

I've had security guards ask me questions before. What's the huge difference between a security quard and a neighborhood watch?

What Florida's legal system allowed to go unpunished proposes a very different kind of society.

They didn't punish Zimmerman because he DIDN'T BREAK THE LAW.

Trayvon broke the fuck out of the law.

What YOU are proposing is that if anyone walks up to me and asks me any questions I can attack you and YOU get in trouble with the law for talking to me.

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Let me tell you another little story about back home when I was growing up.

I was one time at this keg party. At this house where a guy named Chris lived. They had a craps table out and were playing dice for money. I'm chilling with a cup of beer and casually say "Hey, what's up?" to this one guy I'm standing next to. He turns to me and I notice that he's pretty well drunk. And by the expression on his face he didn't look like a happy drunk. He looked pissed off.

He asks me, "Do you have any money?" I raise my eyebrows and reply, "Uhm... no."

So he says to me, "You better get the fuck out of here right now."

So I go, "Alrighty, then." and then walk through the crowd to the other side of the table. Now so far he hasn't broken any laws even though the level of implied threat by the way he's talking to me is pretty high.

So he's still standing there looking pissed and drunk and he's glaring at me from across the way. I'm thinking, "Well this could turn really ugly really fast."

But then as luck would have it Chris walks up, grabs the guy around the neck, and asks him, "Hey (whatever his name was), you're not trying to start shit at my party are you?" The guy immediately looked like a whimpering puppy.

You know why? Because Chris was one of the craziest mother fuckers in the tri-county area. Chris and a friend of his once crashed a party where they didn't know anyone. Completely surrounded by strangers. One of the locals walked up to Chris and told him to leave. Chris attacked him and ended up biting one of his ears completely off and then spit it on him.

The guy's friends take him and his ear to the hospital. Chris stayed and partied.

That's the kind of world I grew up in.