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A Legal Loophole?
Underground Caroline Started conversation Sep 29, 2000
A friend of mine once mentioned that in various countries the law dictates that it is acceptable to defend yourself with a weapon as long as it is of a less dangerous/threatening nature than the weapon brandished at you in the first place. I'm not sure how you're supposed to judge these kinds of things in the heat of panic but I'm assuming that this means, for example, that if some nutter comes at you with a gun, it's legaly acceptable to try and stab him.
So, we thought, If you take that argument to the scissors/paper/stone extreme then surely, if your boss waves a sheet of paper at you in a threatening manner, you are well within your rights to clobber him over the head with a large rock.
Ah. A recipe for office stress-relief 
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