{"id":744,"date":"2012-10-19T14:19:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T18:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=744"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:12:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:12:01","slug":"57-lesser-of-two-evils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"57. Lesser of Two Evils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-745\" title=\"Necessity08\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity08.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity08.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity08-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69f2bdf1b080d0090584996' value='69f2bdf1b080d0090584996'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69f2bdf1b080d0090584996' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69f2bdf1b080d0090584996' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69f2bdf1b080d0090584996' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 13: I Had No Choice! <br \/>Necessity pg 8: Elements of Necessity<\/p>\n<p><em>Harry the Hero counting off on his fingers<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>HARRY<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">So first, I sincerely believed that there was an\u00a0<strong>immediate danger.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Second, the harm I did was smaller than the harm I tried to prevent.<\/p>\n<p><em>One house destroyed is less than several houses destroyed<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">That&#8217;s why this is sometimes called the\u00a0<strong>&#8220;lesser of two evils&#8221;<\/strong> defense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And\u00a0 last, there was\u00a0<strong>no other option<\/strong> that was less severe. The fire department wouldn&#8217;t come in time, and blowing out fires isn&#8217;t one of my powers.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69f2bdf1b080d0090584996' 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-744","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\/744","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=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}