I don't know what you are talking about.
"I'll continue to maintain that it's required, because I wouldn't want to give some poor starry-eyed sucker the idea that in his particular case, this one time, that things will go swimmingly for him."
You'll lie because it's good for people?
You'll lie because it's good for people?
It's not a lie if it's the truth. The Jesters System is run by sociopaths, for the most part. The law is in their mouth, as it was in the mouth of King John before Runnymede.George Zimmerman found that out, to his lasting sorrow.
Surely you've been here long enough to realize that particular fact.
I was talking about "confrontations"
You started talking about a "legal obligation to retreat from a deadly threat".
We're not talking about the same thing. Not all confrontations are deadly threats. Sometimes, a confrontation is just a confrontation.
Let someone else have it, on both counts.