Brooklyn landlord Rafiqul Islam faces arson and attempted murder charges
Hot take: people are more important than property, and anyone who thinks not paying for a basic human right is worth murdering over is a piece of shit who should be shunned from society.
Hotter take: Anyone should be allowed to set things they own on fire*. Being a landlord is thing here that should be outlawed.
*Property fires cannot contain other people or their possessions. Fire must not spread to other properties.
Dude arson endangers not just the lives of the residents of that building but those of adjacent buildings. Fires spread. Even if you could justify the death of the squatters arson is far from any justifiable mechanism.
Everyone’s trying to explain the value of human life to this comment but you’re explaining the hazard to other objects. You’re reaching people where they are; I think just might change a heart tonight. Good job.
It makes them impoverished and desperate in an economy that increasingly funnels wealth towards the idle rich
And they had not paid rent since January? I will never understand the notion that some people, regular people, not billionaires, deserve to lose income while some people deserve free housing because of “family”. While he obviously went a bit overboard, I can’t imagine there wasn’t some desperation in his actions because he had not been paid rent for months on end.
While I can try and understand your position. These people basically stole his investment. Arson and murder is not the correct solution.
