You are missing my point.
The point is that many people currently start and end their reasoning from a point of view sympathetic to M. They do not take into consideration Z’s point of view. I am saying that for those people, a generally accepted standard reference model of behavior in similar situations would help. As of now, apparently, no such commonly accepted standard model exists, which leads to the kind of social whiplash that we are seeing now.
The existence and acceptance of a model reduces the amount of thought and process required to that of whether or not the model is accepted, and if so, whether or not the procedure followed adhered to a checklist developed from the model.
I am also saying that if such a model had existed, then there would have been general public and law enforcement acceptance that no trial would be needed in the first place.
I am addressing the larger social context outside this incident and outside of the trial, not the incident and trial themselves.
But I don’t think we need such a “model.”
All we need to do is ask people to look at the photos of what was done to George Zimmerman by Trayvon Martin.
And then the question: “If you had someone on top of you, doing what Trayvon Martin did to George Zimmerman, smashing your nose like Trayvon Martin smashed George Zimmerman’s nose, beating you repeatedly, smashing your head against the concrete to produce the kind of injuries Trayvon Martin inflicted on the back of George Zimmerman’s head, and you couldn’t stop it and you couldn’t get away, and there was no one to help you, and no one else available to stop the violence, and you were continuing to receive those kind of injuries, and the only way you could fight back or get away was by using the firearm in your pocket, what would you do? What would any reasonable person do?”
There is only one answer to that question: SHOOT the SOB.
That’s it.
There are only two questions in this case.
1) Can the prosecution PROVE that George Zimmerman STARTED THE FIGHT?
Answer: NO. They can’t.
2) Making the reasonable assumption that George Zimmerman did NOT start the fight, did he act in reasonable self-defense by shooting Trayvon Martin?
Answer: Not just yes, but HELL, yes.
That’s it. Not guilty. Case over.