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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Self defense is a legal defense. That means the person claiming that they were acting in self defense is going to be doing that, at trial, in front of a jury. That means they have been charged with murder and the jury has to decide whether the defendant was acting reasonably when they killed them. What that means specifically, depends on jurisdiction.

They could also be guilty of a lesser crime than first degree murder. There are knowing, reckless, and acting under extreme duress versions of homicide in most places. All of which still carry jail time.

Having argued self defense in front of a jury, I think it should always be an option for them so long as it makes some kind of sense for the facts.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's not self defense of immediate threat has ended. You can't take retributive action after the fact and call it self defense.

[-] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

Okay, I'll take a shot at this: I assert that you can and that the laws should be updated to account for that fact.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You go ahead a assert that all you want in a courtroom, see how far you get.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If I was in court for killing a rapist, what makes you think I would care about going to jail at that point? The system would still be wrong for doing it regardless.

Did you know that legal does not equal moral, just or true?

[-] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

So if you successfully flee from danger, and then put yourself back in danger for the explicit purpose of killing someone, that's okay?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If you successfully build a strawman, will it come alive and sing and dance?

[-] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

How is what they said a strawman? You said laws should be updated to allow retribution.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because no one is talking about purposefully putting oneself back in danger. That's logically impossible because the rapist put you in a situation where you are always in danger, not just from them but the community at large.

Burdening rape victims with the responsibility of avoiding their rapist over something done to them inherently puts their life in danger.

It's not always possible to avoid the rapist. Most rapists are people you know. What do you do when you have to interact with them at work? At school? At home?

What happens when you run into them at the store?

Because that's the nightmare those rape apologist bitches are asking for. Entrenching the rights of rapists to act without consequences by shouldering responsibility for the situation on the victim.

Like what all evil people do.

And I will NOT support it. Ever. Rape victims have a unilateral right to kill their rapists and no one with any shred of humanity or decency will deny that. Deny it, and you're a bad person. Period.

[-] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

Also in civilized countries, self defense is only valid if you've exhausted every possible opportunity to retreat.The idea of "stand your ground" laws in the US is widely to considered to contribute to a violent society rather than deter.

For example in Florida in an instance of road rage a man fired a gun at another vehicle. Since the victim has no obligation to retreat, and even had his own weapon, he simply returned fire. So there's a shootout in the middle of the street in broad daylight with innocent people around.

That stuff doesn't happen in safe societies.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Holy fuck, you're naive. Naive to the point of being a danger to the human beings around you.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Go have a read about self defense laws around the world.

America is the naive one here.

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