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Originally Posted by n4mwd
The homeowner pretty much lost everything to the lawyers, but ended up with 6 months probation.
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Yep. There's a positive outcome for ya.
What cannot be known is whether the homeowner actually had a choice here. Did he have the option of bugging out or defending his life from a position of strength, or did he simply choose to stand and defend his territory by airing out somebody standing on the stoop and beating on the door?
He probably lost the friggin' house anyway in the court action.
"Better than being dead" is a common argument, and it's valid up to a point. But it often assumes that the choices are always black-and-white, life-or-death. That's rarely true.