[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by WhiteTiger

True, but you can attack a complete stranger and know that if you are grossly overmatched and get the **** absolutely kicked out of you, your attacker will be charged. You are allowed to defend yourself with a "reasonable" amount of force. You are not allowed to be consequence free if you overreact.

Otherwise, every time someone bumped someone else in a crowd, there'd be a beatdown murder that the bumped person gets away with.

You are allowed to defend yourself reasonably. You are not given free reign to beat the **** out of someone because "they started it", and are clearly overmatched.

In your example, you throw some haymakers at me. Little do you know that I am a black belt. I break both your arms and fracture a few ribs for good measure. Do you honestly think I should get away with that scott free? "Defending yourself with reasonable force" has some pretty good leeway, but that's a bit much, don't you think?

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