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dicion wrote:

C-dub wrote:

dicion wrote: You are authorized to use deadly force to prevent a suicide attempt.

Ironic, isn't it? I've never understood this one.

I think it's due to the fact that, while it's "Lethal Force", you will try your best to apply it to do the least damage possible to save their life, where their suicide attempt is almost guaranteed to take it.

That's the best I could come up with at least.

The way it was explained to me in one of our classes (Tx State Guard) is that someone who is serious about committing suicide through violent means (knife, gun, jumping, suicide by cop etc) is irrational and very often doesn't care if he takes someone else down with him. If you're forced to react, you're not using deadly force to prevent his death, you're using DF to prevent someone else, which could include yourself, from being hurt as well.