In fairness, such a law does not exist in the west, nor has it ever. You can not use lethal force against ordinary force.
It's fine to chase after than hold them for police in a citizen's arrest, and only use proportional physical force to restrain them. That is only not advisable because it is tactically unsound, you are likely to make a mistake, you will not have qualified immunity, and the jury will not assume that you are a good person trying to right a wrong.
In previous centuries, running away after wronging someone still involved the judge/magistrate ordering them to be found, and applying the justice system to them through court, and having their family and church not try to cover for them. The system works fine, but you have too low trust of a society.
You can't shoot someone for stealing a horse. Hangings are a form of capital punishment after a trial. That's like saying poisoning is legal because we kill people with lethal injection.
The system is only as good as its people. And we have dumb, immoral people everywhere. Our highest institutions of learning were starts as Christian schools. They knew that without God, intelligence was hard to achieve, and that even if you managed intelligence without God you were bound to use said intelligence in unproductive ways.
In fairness, such a law does not exist in the west, nor has it ever. You can not use lethal force against ordinary force.
It's fine to chase after than hold them for police in a citizen's arrest, and only use proportional physical force to restrain them. That is only not advisable because it is tactically unsound, you are likely to make a mistake, you will not have qualified immunity, and the jury will not assume that you are a good person trying to right a wrong.
In previous centuries, running away after wronging someone still involved the judge/magistrate ordering them to be found, and applying the justice system to them through court, and having their family and church not try to cover for them. The system works fine, but you have too low trust of a society.
Bullshit. We used to hang people for stealing horses.
You can't shoot someone for stealing a horse. Hangings are a form of capital punishment after a trial. That's like saying poisoning is legal because we kill people with lethal injection.
The system is only as good as its people. And we have dumb, immoral people everywhere. Our highest institutions of learning were starts as Christian schools. They knew that without God, intelligence was hard to achieve, and that even if you managed intelligence without God you were bound to use said intelligence in unproductive ways.