That's merely your understanding of self defence.Other people like those in the jury may have a different understanding - and their understanding is more important here.
I agree with your second paragraph.I want Luigi to go free even if he did pull the trigger, because the jury comes to the conclusion that killing Brian Thompson was done, because ultimately CEOs need to be (hold) responsible or they aren't needed in the first place.If holding them responsible is impossible due to a rigged system, alternatives need to be tolerated.People (especially CEOs) need to consider the consequences of their actions.Until very recently people in power could do as they please without fear of consequences. That needs to change one way or the other. I'd prefer them changing coursefor the better of all. If they won't, well...
I do believe that the perception of the action of which Luigi got accused weighes orders of magnitude more than the perception of his appearance or his popularity.It's not him who was popular in the first place.It was what was done.Accusing him of it in turn made him popular. That would've worked for other people too.
Well, given that jury nullification is a thing and considering how rarely it happens, I'd rather risk the scenarios outlined by you than having no way of giving a not guilty verdict to people this way who do something illegal but legitimate.
Or use the onion network wherever possible: https://www.torproject.org/After all a VPN requires trust in the VPN provider wheres using TOR only requires trust in the design and knowledge about its limitations
Sure. If you want full control, you need to run your own server.Matrix crosses my mind.But using that is a different animal than installing an app from a store.As far as security when communicating conveniently on mobile phone goes, Signal does a pretty good job. But you're right that it's important to realize what's possible and what's not possible.
Yeah, the never-ending weighting between convenience and security.But are you going to tell me that those people don't have Whatsapp, Threema, Telegram or any other IM installed and just use plain SMS instead?
Handling SMS and handling secure/encrypted messages could've made people think they communicate securely while relying on text messages instead.Not handling SMS fixes this source of confusion and I applaud their decision.
The deal is that they run their program in a very transparent and wherever possible verifiable way.More details here: https://lemmy.world/comment/14775870
Have a look here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balcony_solar_power