I’m not sure that observing that you seem kinda upset qualifies as an ad hominem fallacy, but I’m definitely hearing that you’re frustrated. What can I do to help?

Wow, you seem kinda upset. Everything ok at home?

Yeah, a nice, dark, room temperature stout on a hot July day is just what the doctor ordered. I like mine with a side of beef stew if I’m looking for some extra refreshment.

Then you need to go to a meeting.

Thanks for weighing in. Sorry I forced you to respond to a comment I made to someone else.

I’m not making a legal argument. I understand that it is technically illegal to shoot the drone out of the sky in almost any circumstance. I’m talking about what’s fair and what’s deserved.

I’m not sure you should be living out in the country if somebody firing a shotgun once in a great while would throw you into such a tizzy.

Meh. Somebody lives out in the country, and finds a drone with a camera peeping in her windows, I’m pretty ok with her shooting it down if she wants.

No, because I’d be harming or at the very leas endangering a person. I think you’re probably able to understand the difference between destroying a thing and hurting a person.

You replaced the word “camera” with “neighbor” in your own scenario. If a neighbor puts a camera in a tree on my own property to peep in my windows, I’m fairly certain I have the moral right to destroy it.

In most cases, sure. But definitely not all.

The question is are you going to be a dick to your neighbor or not.

Ya think? http://gizmodo.com/who-is-respons…

But whether or not someone is justified in knocking a drone out of the sky on their own property is determined by what that drone is doing there. So you can’t figure out if someone just thinks he can shoot anything he wants, or is acting entirely reasonably, without considering the drone’s operator.

Regardless of the intent or who was wrong first, destroying someone else’s property is not okay.

Since its my hypothetical, it’s a window blocked from the street by a tree. No one would expect anyone to be able to see in the window without climbing twenty feet up a tree on our own property.

Let’s say I notice a drone with a camera attached hovering outside a second story window in my home that happens to contain my sixteen year old daughter changing clothes. Leaving the gun issue aside, you really don’t think I’d be justified in knocking that thing out of the sky and destroying it?

Perhaps, depending on who you ask.

It isn’t terribly difficult to hit a quadcopter with a GoPro hovering twenty yards above your back yard with a shotgun, is it?

Be a good neighbor, not an asshole.