Definition
- A real and significant—not speculative or trivial—risk of initiating nonconsensual physical force to another person or their property.
- Creating a substantial risk of initiating nonconsensual physical force is one of the 9 forms of aggressing (a breach of the Legal Principle).
Local community determines the threshold
- What exactly constitutes a substantial risk is a subjective grey-area, and must be decided by the local community.
Examples
- Impairment from drugs or alcohol.
- Storing dangerous materials in a populated area.
- Someone in possession of a firearm that is either a violent felon, mentally incompetent, or technically incompetent. Weapons with more significant harm to greater numbers of people at further distances also require more stringent rules that need to be determined.
