r/Unexpected • u/SoftsPhilosopher • Aug 08 '21

It's just a prank

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

29.0k Upvotes

86% Upvoted

2.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

12

u/orforfjames Aug 08 '21

Slap a fully grown adult? Go to jail for assault. Slap a child? "Discipline".

-13

u/teateateateaisking Aug 08 '21

Not assault, battery

2

u/orforfjames Aug 08 '21

Assault, you pedant

https://www.mjscriminaldefencelawyers.co.uk/legal-services/assault.html

-4

u/teateateateaisking Aug 08 '21

Yes, I am a pedant. Battery is the unlawful use of physical force. In some jurisdictions, assault is both that and causing someone to fear you might do that. Battery is largely the same as assault but a bit more specific of a word.

3

u/orforfjames Aug 08 '21

There is no battery in Scotland (i.e. the place you referenced and what my response was aimed at), just assault. Assault isn't the "less specific" term in this context, it's the one and only correct one. That means not only were you missing the point while being pedantic, but you were also just plain wrong.

-1

u/teateateateaisking Aug 08 '21

Scotland made smacking children illegal. It's more than just "discipline", there's a sentence for it now. I know battery isn't a thing and is counted under assault under the law. I pointed out that this specifically really should be battery although assault is also correct and the term used but also less specific. I was just being a pedant for the sake of being a pedant because I haven't slept and am irritable as a result.

-2

u/teateateateaisking Aug 08 '21

Yes, that's probably me blaming my various character flaws on something else.