Seattle

Your phrasing is extremely biased.

Pot calling the kettle black?

Yes, my language is biased. I am fully cognizant of my biases here. I am also aware of your biases, as I hope you are as well. Let neither of us suffer any pretense of neutrality.

What I don't think that either of us has is malicious intent: I think we are both concerned about protecting ourselves, eachother, and society in general from harm.

Where our respective biases come in is our understanding of harm: the sources and severities.

I think you would say it is more important to prevent harm from occurring in the first place.

I would say that prevention is not (entirely) feasible, and that the individual should be empowered to meet harm with overwhelming force.