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KKL8160

Taxes?

Actual after-tax purchasing power relative to the amount of work that you do, is perhaps a better optimization target?

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0jhuffman
You'd really have to look at entitlements you'd use as well. For example in a country with state health care plans you will pay more in taxes but not have to spend as much on a health care plan. I wasn't suggesting a specific metric, obviously.
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KKL8110

Unlike you, IANAL, but killing burgulars would be legal in most places if you can convince the courts that someone's life/health was in serious danger at the time, and that violence was the only reasonable option, wouldn't it? I mean, as long as you can argue that the violence was not excessive relative to what it would take to passivate the dangerous burgular, and that death was an accidental side effect and not intended?

That is, for some local interpretations of "serious", "reasonable" and "excessive", surely. Is it your im... (read more)

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0Mercy
He might be offended by the fact that he'd have to go to trial and plead guilty. There was a case over here of a guy who got tied up with his family for hours by burglars, who broke free and beat one of them into a coma with a cricket bat. He initially refused to plead guilty and received a fairly lengthy sentence- commuted on appeal once he actually had the sense to admit it and plead circumstances.