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Old 9th September 2018, 05:29 PM   #390
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Originally Posted by Fudbucker View Post
"Freaking out" is what reasonable people do when a stranger is in the house. Her reaction was perfectly normal. What caused the reaction was a mistake. her reaction and what caused that reaction are not the same thing.
Disagreed. Freaking out is what cartoon housewives do when they see a mouse. Adults do not. They may get very alert and defensive, but freaking out and killing come much later up the scale of threat.

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Could a reasonable person mistake an apartment door? Yes. Could that same reasonable person fear for their life upon entering an apartment they thought was there's? Yes.
But can they act on that fear and justifiably kill, absent an imminent threat? Absolutely not.

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So where's the crime at? She didn't do anything a non-reasonable person would do.
She did. Reasonable people don't 'freak out' and kill others. Police officers yell 'freeze! Police!' or the like before killing unarmed and, as far as we know, unthreatening people.
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