Edward429451 said:
So now it's all the way to attack the moral turpitudes of a man who says he wont back down on his land...I think they used to call that American spirit and people used to respect it.
Now he's a bad guy because he said he wont back down. This countrys time is passed. I miss the good old days.
No one has said that he's a bad guy. Several people have pointed out that in general,
it is in one's own best interest to avoid... retreat from... de-escalate... threatening situations. The corollary of this is that a blanket insistence on "standing one's ground," no matter what, is likely to lead to confrontations that could have been avoided. And as OldMarksman has pointed out in some detail, the financial and legal consequences of any confrontation, even one in which one is eventually exonerated, can be devastating.
A belief in the supremacy of one's own rights over the needs of other people (and one's responsibilities to them) is an essentially narcissistic viewpoint; insisting on those "rights" even when doing so is likely to have negative consequences for oneself is self-destructive, and implies a level of narcissism that's, well, pathological.
Thinking that it's cowardly to back down from a confrontation ("tuck tail and run" were the words used); having a huge emotional investment in "standing one's ground;" defending one's "turf" against all comers even when that means resorting to violence -- these sound more like the attitudes of adolescent gang members than those of responsible adults.
So what's the underlying message that the community is saying here? That I should run away from drunken, criminal type behavior? That I should condition myself to always call the authorities on my fellow Americans? That I have the moral expectation thrust on me to give my property and not defend it?
The message is merely that you should do what's in your own best interest, which is to avoid unnecessary confrontations: that putting yourself in a situation in which you might have to use deadly force just... isn't... smart. The price you're likely to pay, in any rational accounting, is too high.
(And, Edward429451, you might want to look up "moral turpitude." It doesn't mean what you think it does.)