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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agemegos" data-source="post: 1568591" data-attributes="member: 18377">Interesting. he doesn't have to be compelled to use lethal force to be justified in using it? He only has to be compelled to act in some way, and then he is justified in uusing lethal force?I note that you implicitly discount the possibility of immediately using non-lethal force. Why?Does that belief have to be reasonable? I would have thought that a reasonable paladin (there's a notion for AP Herbert) in that situation would have believed that there was another safe way to prevent the rape or other assault.law enforcemment officers are held to a higher standard, I take it?I consider that just as speculative as the possibility that the rapist might have been acting under a compulsion or possession. Basing our judgement on chimeras is an axe that cuts both ways.  Imaginary allies, imaginary knives, imaginary demons, imaginary spells, imaginary fears: they aren't the things that a reasonable person bases his or her actions on.</blockquote>