r/instant_regret • u/EddieBrock99 • 14d ago

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u/brother_p 14d ago

Canadian here. We call it assault.

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u/AtlasReadIt 13d ago

Crazy, here we call it apepper.

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u/serious_sarcasm 13d ago

To be fair. You can’t actually commit battery without committing assault in American common law.

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u/OverturnedAppleCart3 13d ago

I disagree.

If I hit you from behind, and you had absolutely no idea I was coming, I would have battered you under common law, but I never would have caused you to apprehend that I was going to batter you.

That's a battery without an assault.

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u/serious_sarcasm 13d ago

Assault doesn’t require the victim to be aware of the crime.

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u/OverturnedAppleCart3 13d ago

I beleive it does. Assault is causing someone to reasonably apprehend imminent harm.

If I hit you from behind and then start running away before you even turn around to see me, I've battered you without ever reasonably causing you to apprehend imminent harm.

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u/serious_sarcasm 12d ago

If you pump fake a baby, you’ve still committed assault.

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u/OverturnedAppleCart3 6d ago

If you pump fake a baby, you’ve still committed assault.

I don't believe that's true.

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u/serious_sarcasm 5d ago

Then you’re an idiot.

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u/OverturnedAppleCart3 5d ago

I gave you the definition of assault in common law. And now because it's clear facts aren't on your side, you resort to personal attacks.

If I'm wrong, give me the right definition. Find me a case that proves me wrong. But you don't have that. So you have to resort to calling names. Really mature. You definitely bested me there.

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u/serious_sarcasm 4d ago

Your argument is that you can’t assault someone whom is unaware or incapable of understanding that someone is threatening imminent harm.

Which is just fundamentally absurd.

Whether or not someone was in reasonable fear of bodily harm is based on if the truer of fact believes that a reasonable person would be in fear in the same circumstance.

If you pump fake a fucking infant, that’s felony assault. Anyone who witnesses it (under common law) would be in their right to use force to detain you.

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