The reasonable person standard is a measurement of how a typical member of a community would behave under a certain set of circumstances. This is a term used in law in order to describe a hypothetical person that can be used as a standard in case law and jury instructions. The "reasonable person" is often used as a comparison against which a criminal's behaviour can be studied.
A reasonable person standard appears in almost all types of law, be it Civil right Law, Criminal Law, Contract Law etc; it's a test used to measure the way the society's members want an individual to act in a given situation. This standard gives room for an individual to protect his/her interest and that of the society members as well. It requires an individual to be fully informed about the level of knowledge, type of experience/exposure the society is expecting from a reasonable person as the individual with be compared with "reasonable person".
