{"id":729,"date":"2012-10-19T14:16:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T18:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=729"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:10:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:10:02","slug":"52-justification-no-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=729","title":{"rendered":"52. Justification = No Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-730\" title=\"Necessity03\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity03.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity03.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity03-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a1c321a2732c8068427793' value='6a1c321a2732c8068427793'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a1c321a2732c8068427793' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a1c321a2732c8068427793' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a1c321a2732c8068427793' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 13: I Had No Choice! <br \/>Necessity pg 3: Justification Defenses<\/p>\n<p>But if you had\u00a0<strong>no<\/strong> choice, then it&#8217;s a\u00a0<strong>&#8220;justification&#8221;<\/strong> defense.<\/p>\n<p><em>Average Joe explaining<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>JOE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">But does anyone ever really have\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">no<\/span> other option?<\/p>\n<p><em>Joe shoving his hands in his pockets defiantly<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>JOE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I mean, you can always choose to do\u00a0<strong>nothing,<\/strong> right?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, but when we say you had no choice, we really mean that you didn&#8217;t have a\u00a0<strong>socially-acceptable<\/strong> alternative.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Not allowed&#8221; circle with a line through it, over Joe shoving his hands in his pockets. (Is there a name for that symbol? It keeps popping up.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In other words, doing nothing would have been\u00a0<strong>wrong.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-6a1c321a2732c8068427793' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,38,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-defenses","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}