re: #294 RogueOne

I don’t think I have the right to decide that question for somebody else.

I’m not asking you if you have the right. Don’t you think it would have been better for them to not shoot in that circumstance, at least to have tried something else first?

I think the question is… in the heat of the moment who gets to make that decision?

because I think that’s what you would be asking people to do. If the standard is “You have to try to consider running first” you’re asking people to consider options that they feel would be putting them in danger.

It’s not necessarily ‘running’. It can be driving off, backing through a door and slamming it. It can also be ‘using less than lethal force’, or using the gun as a threat first instead of immediately firing.

And how do you know they feel it would put them in danger?

I don’t have any problem with judges making the final call over if the person reasonably believed their lives were in danger. All the SYG should do is take the question of “fight or flee” out of the hands of prosecutors and into the victims.

But why do you not ahve the problem with the judges making the final call over if the person reasonably believed they had a chance to flee?