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- adjective Not
deadly .
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LarryA says: readery: One possible difficulty is that, while by ordinary common-law considerations, threats of force as a lesser means of self-defence would be justifiable in more circumstances than actual force (just as nondeadly force would be justifiable in more circumstances than deadly force), the statute may have reduced the set of circumstances where threats are legal to just those where actual force is.
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Why would one interpret the constitutional provision as securing a right to deadly self-defense but not a right to nondeadly self-defense?
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What is disputed is that the right to use deadly force for the protection of innocent life implies the right to use nondeadly force in a situation of less gravity.
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One possible difficulty is that, while by ordinary common-law considerations, threats of force as a lesser means of self-defence would be justifiable in more circumstances than actual force (just as nondeadly force would be justifiable in more circumstances than deadly force), the statute may have reduced the set of circumstances where threats are legal to just those where actual force is.
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No one is claiming that, in a scenario in which deadly forced might be used, one cannot resort to nondeadly force.
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Why would one interpret the constitutional provision as securing a right to deadly self-defense but not a right to nondeadly self-defense?
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One possible difficulty is that, while by ordinary common-law considerations, threats of force as a lesser means of self-defence would be justifiable in more circumstances than actual force just as nondeadly force would be justifiable in more circumstances than deadly force, the statute may have reduced the set of circumstances where threats are legal to just those where actual force is.
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What is disputed is that the right to use deadly force for the protection of innocent life implies the right to use nondeadly force in a situation of less gravity.
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No one is claiming that, in a scenario in which deadly forced might be used, one cannot resort to nondeadly force.
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Philippine and international health authorities Friday said four more pig-farm workers in the country had tested positive to a nondeadly strain of the Ebola virus that recently occurred in the country's pig population, taking the number of known human cases to five.
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