Quote Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios View Post
Oh, I'll play. What you've overlooked in your righteous anger is that as frightened or as angry as she was she did continue administering the beating/kicking well after the guy was quite clearly not going to crawl back up (clear to other witnesses). That's sort of where the line between justified force crosses into needless violence. Once the guy is obviously not going to crawl back up without the help of an ambulance crew there's not much need for kicking him out of self defense...
I'd laugh if this weren't so sad.

Are teenage girls attacked by stalkers supposed to do health evaluations while they try to fight back? How can anyone in the heat of a fight do that?

well after the guy was quite clearly not going to crawl back up (clear to other witnesses)
It's clear now - and only now - and only because the incident is over and the results are there. And other witnesses? This, in the early morning? They had to be at least a bit away, looking at something in the night. And that's supposed to determine if self defense is legitimate? Some useless eyewitness (in so many trials eyewitnesses are wrong about what they saw) with a point of view that is much farther from the action?

And of course the only rational response in an incident like this is exactly what this girl did - to beat the attacker unconscious (as she didn't have a gun). If the attacker isn't unconscious, then he can continue the fight and overpower his victim.

I wish the idea that a victim must check on the health of their attacker and carefully determine if the attacker can get up or is unconscious while in the middle of a fight was so farcical and outlandish it need never be addressed, but sadly that is not the case.

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