The truth is, I'm over 50 and I've seen that same cop show my whole life. The one where the lone rogue cop knows who's the real criminal, goes after them outside the law and without evidence, gets them in a vicious splatterfest, and gets away with it. Isn't that the way cop shows go? And doesn't everyone want to be that cop?

If I didn't laugh, I'd cry.

It's the problem with ignorance, after all. If everyone went around meekly admitting everything they didn't know, or how little data they used to form their opinions, it would be a completely different world. I think.

Which said that you had to run away from someone attacking you, often even if you had to retreat from your own home.

Thanks for this. This makes complete sense. If you think about it, "duty to retreat" mirrors a clear Just War Theory, which, when followed closely makes it really difficult to go into war and then demands certain humane treatment once engaged. I'm not proponent of Just War Theory, but it's better than what we've got.

So if we look where we've been since Viet Nam (actually since Korea), you see that Just War Theory has slowly evolved into Preventative War the same way "duty to retreat" evolved into "STG." Fascinating. The psychology is identical. As it is with the South park clip.

These sorts of laws seem to be degenerate and asking for legal problems, simply because stand your ground is so ambiguous in its application in a way "duty to retreat" is not.