Duty to retreat vs stand your ground and castle laws: Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

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25. This is only a list

of places where specific laws state there is no duty to retreat under various circumstances.

In each of these cases, as your own link mentions, the castle doctrine is "upheld in general," which is to say, the law recognizes an implicit exemption to duty to retreat in the home (and generally in other circumstances, such as in one's car, with a child, etc.). Case law (and, as in Virginia's case, the particular use of common law) means that these exemptions can be challenged case by case, but that does not remove the exemption as the general criterion.

You're confusing your evidence (whether a state has a specific castle law) with the claim (that one has a duty to retreat in the first instance); a state need not have a specific castle law in order for the exemption on the duty to retreat to have the force of law in that jurisdiction: indeed, of the cases mentioned there, please point out which of these would override the exemption and under what circumstances. It would be nice if you could do that argumentative work in terms of your initial hyperbolic example. Once again, you said,

"If an armed robber comes into your bedroom at night, you are obligated to flee if you safely can. It doesn't matter if you are armed. It doesn't matter if you are innocent. A criminal can dismiss you from your own home."

Show me any one of the jurisdictions mentioned in the Wikipedia article on whether a state has an explicit Castle statute (because that's what the list was about) where that has or actually would actually happen as you claimed.