You wake up in the middle of the night to hear someone breaking into your apartment. You silently make it to the kitchen to grab a knife for a weapon - to protect yourself, of course.
The assailant, who is armed not only with a crowbar, but with pepper spray, sprays away at your eyes and you lose your vision. Being the badass you are, you start swinging your knife wildly and manage to wound the robber 14 times while in pain and disoriented from the spray.
End result:
You, whose house was invaded; you, who were defending yourself; you, who was momentarily blinded from a pepper spray attack and stood your ground...
YOU are sentenced to 1½ years in prison and you have to pay the robber, who only got five months to serve, 2000 euros for pain, emotional suffering and cosmetic damages.
We've got no Castle Doctrine here.
Welcome. Don't forget your pepper spray.
