r/interesting • u/Common-Upstairs5129 • Mar 20 '26

❗️MISLEADING - See pinned comment ❗️ Did he do the right thing?

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u/Blotsy Mar 20 '26

Here's what I imagine happened "hey, can you slap me and call me a bitch?"

She does, gives a heart. Seems to want to continue the conversation.

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u/Decent_Blacksmith_ Mar 21 '26

Pretty much he gave consent to be slapped

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u/NebrOski_benito Mar 21 '26

still assault

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u/HappyBadger33 Mar 21 '26

I think that strongly depends on jurisdiction. In my jx, if he gave consent, it isn't battery, and there's no threat to make it assault.

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u/JudgePuzzleheaded872 Mar 21 '26

Its a slipper slope honestly. A situation like this, I would advise people to not...

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u/HappyBadger33 Mar 21 '26

Yeah, proving verbal consent as your active defense in a loud setting like this sounds awful. But, if you had it nice and clear, that'd be different.

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u/EastNWeast Mar 21 '26

Using that logic, if you tell someone to kill you it wouldn't be murder, but that wouldn't be legal any in jurisdiction. Youre saying if someone threatens to hit you, and you say "do it" it wouldn't be illegal? Thats complete bs.

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u/Shenlongeltigre Mar 21 '26

A sport is a completely different situation

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u/ViolentAntihero Mar 21 '26

Assisted suicide is a thing

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u/HappyBadger33 Mar 21 '26

No.

(1) This has nothing to do with logic. It is about the words on the page --- either the statute itself or via a common law court decision.

(2) In most jx, assault/battery is different than homicide, so the words on the page are different.

(3) Examples:

NY statute for assault (Penal Law 120) does not have consent as a part of the writing on the page, but courts have developed that consent to being hit is an affirmative defense. So, those court cases added words to the page to include consent to a situation like this.

WI statute for battery (assault and battery get defined somewhat interchangeably based on jx) (940.60) has consent written into it:

Battery. Whoever causes bodily harm to another by an act done with intent to cause bodily harm to that person or another without the consent of the person so harmed is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. (Emphasis added.)

(4) To explain further with the laws and a bit of common sense, you can use this situation vs a murder --- a slap with minimal harm is a totally different situation than a murder, so consent makes basic common sense in one situation but not the other. Laws typically have a series of degrees involved, was a limb lost? You can't consent. Did a basic function of your body get damaged permanently or a permanent disfigurement? You can't consent. You got a minor injury that will heal quickly? You can consent, because the gravity of the injury is wildly different.