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From: Ken Hirsch <kahirsch@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: [alt.fan.cecil-adams] inducing panic
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Date: 15 May 1996 21:43:03 -0700
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Subject: Re: inducing panic
From: Scott Norton <norton@ASYNC01.ACM.Org>
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garynamy@aol.com (Garynamy) writes:

> But to answer your question, I'm pretty sure the prosecutor would only
> have to demonstrate that a reasonable person (one of my favorite
> legalisms) would have panicked, having seen whatever the thing was.

The good thing about living in the Washinton DC area is that you can
go to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and meet one
of the US Standard Reasonable Persons. Privately, she told me she hates those
calibration runs where they find out what makes her panic.  She
prefers the tests where she acts in a prudent manner.

On my next trip to Belgium, I hope to meet the ISO "Personne Raisonable."

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