(June 23, 2011 at 11:48 am)Epimethean Wrote: Post 108
Reasonable personhood is subjective.
I talked about the "reasonable man" test in that post. That if it is held that a reasonable person would kill in self-defense against rape (which sounds logical, or at least understandable), then it should be acceptable. Nowhere did i say there should be no self-defense actions. Just that there needs to be an objective limit to it.
The legal process has established what a reasonable man is, and that's the basis judges use to determine what is or is not reasonable. When you take case after case after case, you end up with an average of what is expected of people under certain circumstances, and using those numerous previous incidents you can determine whether an act is objectively reasonable or not.
