Practice question · True or false
A person who acts under irresistible physical force performs conduct that is typical but justified.
Hints
- Ask whether anything the person did counts as conduct at all.
- The analysis stops at the first stage.
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False
Why
False. Under irresistible physical force there is no human conduct, so the ladder never reaches the question of typicality, let alone justification. The distinction is practical: a justified act is lawful and cannot be resisted, whereas an absence of conduct simply takes this person out of the analysis and leaves everyone else's position untouched.
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