{"id":774,"date":"2012-10-19T14:23:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T18:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=774"},"modified":"2023-08-12T20:22:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:22:07","slug":"67-volition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"67. Volition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-775\" title=\"Necessity18\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity18.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity18.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity18-300x280.png 300w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Necessity18-320x300.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Again, behind this principle we see a deeper principle of volition. If Jack was going to die anyway, then she wasn&#8217;t in control of that. She was choosing to actively save herself, rather than actively choosing to kill him. That analysis could get messy, but then again so is real life. That&#8217;s why we have juries.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e572320c7508012940942' value='69e572320c7508012940942'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e572320c7508012940942' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e572320c7508012940942' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e572320c7508012940942' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 13: I Had No Choice! <br \/>Necessity pg 18: Volitional or Passive<\/p>\n<p>So the question is whether Jack was going to die\u00a0<strong>anyway.<\/strong> If Jack was a goner, then Jill acted so that only <strong>1<\/strong> would die instead of\u00a0<strong>2.<\/strong> If Jack was a goner, then Jill&#8217;s choice of evils was this:<\/p>\n<p><em>Two gravestones<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Do nothing, and BOTH die<\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<p><em>One gravestone<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kill one, so that one lives.<\/p>\n<p>If Jack was going to die anyway, then under the minority (modern) view, by killing him to save herself, Jill did the\u00a0<strong>right thing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She chose\u00a0<strong>1<\/strong> death instead of\u00a0<strong>2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e572320c7508012940942' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again, behind this principle we see a deeper principle of volition. If Jack was going to die anyway, then she wasn&#8217;t in control of that. She was choosing to actively save herself, rather than actively choosing to kill him. That &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=774\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","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-774","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\/774","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=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}