Then, by that logic, a person must be expected to lay down his life before parting with a penny's worth of property, because what you are saying is that property, no matter what it is worth, has greater value than life. That is precisely what I despise about laws and philosophies such as you have quoted.

I cannot imagine how grand a home must be to weigh heavier than the life of a person, however mean and humble he be.

But if I'm wrong, hell - let's go and shoot some 11 year-old shop-lifters pinching sweeties. A pound of humbugs is more valuable than a couple of naughty rascals.

No-one is a criminal until convicted, and until then, everyone has the same rights. If a person injures himself in the commission of a crime, that is one thing, but if he is unlawfully injured, that is entirely another.