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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m starting to wonder if this is a troll post. All these “unwanted touching” PPs have never seen the results of a broken jaw. It’s serious assault, serious recovery time and not excusable unless a documented accident.  Punching someone in the face hard enough to break jaw is a crime and not justified [/quote]

This is such a weird response to me. You realize that "touching" someone else's head can be a hedging way of referring to a range from a teeny boop on the tip of the nose to flicking him directly in the eye, or clapping him on the side of the head a'la the eardrum rupture in It's A Wonderful Life?

How the hell can you say you know whether it was proportional or not? Especially given it could have been a wild swing that just landed right.

You're pushing a narrative.[/quote]

Touching someone’s anything when unwanted is assault - plain and simple.[/quote]

Agreed. But the law looks at things like whether the response was proportional. There is case law on this.

From what OP wrote, it could certainly go either way. Anyone that makes a firm judgment call one way or the other is projecting something.[/quote]

Proportional would refer to the means not the outcome. If he'd used a gun or a knife or a club on the guy, not proportional. Punching a guy who lays his hands on you, yes, proportional.[/quote]

Have you heard of the term "proportional level of force?"

The level of force is not solely determined by the means.[/quote]

If someone is touching you with their hands, then a punch (using your hands) is a precisely proportional level of force.

You are allowed to use enough force to stop the assault. Which the puncher did.[/quote]

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