Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each situation to the objective-imputation criterion that resolves it.
- Deflecting a falling beam so it strikes a shoulder rather than a head
- Driving carefully within the traffic rules and still causing an accident
- Supplying a drug to an adult who knowingly takes a dangerous dose
- A person injured in a crash dies when the ambulance is struck by another vehicle
- Self-endangerment: the victim freely and knowingly ran the risk
- Permitted risk: the activity is dangerous and socially tolerated
- Risk reduction: the conduct diminished an existing danger
- Atypical causal course: the realised risk was not the one created
Hints
- One criterion applies where the conduct made things better, not worse.
- Two of the four turn on what the victim or the community accepted.
Show the answer
- Deflecting a falling beam so it strikes a shoulder rather than a head → Risk reduction: the conduct diminished an existing danger
- Driving carefully within the traffic rules and still causing an accident → Permitted risk: the activity is dangerous and socially tolerated
- Supplying a drug to an adult who knowingly takes a dangerous dose → Self-endangerment: the victim freely and knowingly ran the risk
- A person injured in a crash dies when the ambulance is struck by another vehicle → Atypical causal course: the realised risk was not the one created
Why
Reading the four together shows objective imputation is not one test but a family of them, held together by a single question: was this result the realisation of a risk the law forbade this person to create? Each criterion answers no for a different reason.
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