His stated purpose of being there and taking his gun was to protect property (by taking lives if necessary) from people who were damaging property in order to protect lives (the BLM protests).
Property is more valuable than human life everywhere in the world. For example, two million children die from hunger each year. 7$ will protect a child from malaria for a season. I could save so many lives by selling everything I own and donating it to charity, and yet I don't. And neither do you, or most of the rest of the world.
Life has value. Each of us estimates our own life to be invaluable, but the life of those farther and farther away has less and less value for us. Not because it's not actually worth less, but because we're tribal beings. We care about ourselves first, then our tribe, then if we have any extra resources we might care about other tribes too.
But yeah, what I'm saying is I'd let the entirety of lemmy die for a crisp 1$ note and I'd lose no sleep about it, y'all were born in the wrong tribe.
Property is more valuable than human life everywhere in the world.
No not really. There are lots of places where it wont fly in court when you kill someone to protect your property. In the US it does, all the time. They frame it differently and cry self defense or something, but we all know what actually happens.
You're a bad person and you should stop pretending your selfish disposition is natural and immutable simply because you've noticed others are too. There are reasons people behave the way they do and those reasons can change.