Bullshit!!!
- Thread starter doug777
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That's so fucked up.
Elderly white man at fast food spot was upset about how long his meal was taking, attacks Black employee by slapping him and using racial slurs, Black man defends himself and badly injures white guy. Black man charged, white man sues, judge rules dude had the right to defend himself but took it too far. Black man sentenced to 1 year and ordered to pay 300 k to the aggressor.
This is part of the problem with the law that doesn't align with human nature. Most humans fight response lessons their ability to reason and judge proportionality of response once they get mad they just go all out. Luckily most people are ineffective fighters so them going all out on someone who is also untrained doesn't cause significant damage. But in the law every level of damage you cause to someone has different legal consequences. You break a bone or cause permanent injury that's maiming 10 to 20 if they can prove it was intentional.
We need to teach the youth.1. Stay in control at all times. Even in a fight be aware be intentional about your actions. This idea of crashing out has to be removed from our cultural perspective 2. Know that there may be witnesses and you may have to prove you were threatened, prove your violence was proportional. So ACT appropriately. If you have to hurt someone everyone watching needs to know you were scared. If you don't look angry it's harder to prove intent.
That's why you should never fight children, old people, the disabled mentally or physically. There is no way to win legally. It's hard to prove you were scared unless they are really a threat to you physically.
I'll remove myself from the situation expeditiously before I do a year in jail for a $10/hr job, or a fool talking shit. Now if you are grown ass man and I feel threatened and I'm scared and accidentally fall into you with an elbow that breaks your collar bone you can't prove intent.
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