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> pretty much every reasonable person Reasonable is subjective.
by ben509 7y ago
> pretty much every reasonable person
Reasonable is subjective.
- egdod 7y agoNo, it isn’t. The “reasonable person” standard in lots of laws exists exactly because we can agree on it as an objective standard.
- ben509 7y agoWe don't agree what it actually is, though. In practice, the "reasonable person" standard is achieved by asking a jury. In a jury, the members apply their life experiences to the case they're deciding and then persuade each other to reach a unanimous conclusion. That's an entirely subjective process, and if you repeat it with another jury you can get the polar opposite answer.
- egdod 7y agoJuries might disagree about what a reasonable person would do in a given situation. But that was just a digression. I think that almost all juries could agree on some subset of behaviors being labeled as “horrible.”