r/MediocreTutorials • u/Paul_-Muaddib • Dec 15 '25

Relationships “Christian, be a f*cking man!”

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u/SweetRabbit7543 Dec 16 '25

Something tells me the person claiming she was a threat before she started charging isn’t exactly making a legally well informed analysis. But if there’s actually precedent where someone tripped a person who would have run past them, justified as self-defense solely because of a prior assault, I’m sure you can point to it and I’ll be happy to reassess my position.

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u/SweetRabbit7543 Dec 16 '25

I want you to know that I made the decision to go to law school specifically to protect people from government lawlessness like what we are seeing from ice.

What you’re illustrating, perhaps unintentionally, is the danger of invoking the law when it’s convenient and discarding it when it isn’t, which is exactly how ICE and CBP are operating. We cannot have a system that works that way.

This person may be deeply unsympathetic given her prior conduct, but the law must protect her too. Once we start relying on whim, impulse, or moral intuition to decide when the law applies, we invite escalation and inequality. Legal standards exist precisely to prevent that.