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originally posted by: MoreInteriorThis could be purposely creating the precedent to charge people with attempted murder, or some kind of psychological assault, if they say something not PC. You just need the puppets to come forward claiming they almost killed themselves because of it.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
A young woman who as a teenager encouraged her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself in dozens of text messages and told him to "get back in" a truck filled with toxic gas was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in jail for involuntary manslaughter.
abcnews.go.com...
Spoken words, just words can now get you convicted of manslaughter.
Spoken words, not actions, just words can get you sent to jail.
I was torn on this issue. I was saddened to hear about what the young man did and thought that the young lady was culpable. But all she did was speak and text. She didn't use force.
She just spoke.
She just texted.
But now just saying or writing something that encourages another individual to commit an act (suicide) is punishable.
So "Just Do It" should be changed to "Just Do It as long as you are safe and no one gets harmed". Call Nike. Quickly.
I'm just a small town boy, living in this lonely world, so I don't have all the answers.
But this bothers me.
originally posted by: yuppa
a reply to: DBCowboy
So was charles manson.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
But now just saying or writing something that encourages another individual to commit an act (suicide) is punishable.
originally posted by: MoreInterior
I don't feel the least bit sorry for her, but with the current conditions in our society I don't trust this. This could be purposely creating the precedent to charge people with attempted murder, or some kind of psychological assault, if they say something not PC. You just need the puppets to come forward claiming they almost killed themselves because of it.
Also, theoretically any suicide could result in arrests of various meanies.
She absolutely coerced him and should be held accountable. I'm just saying a precedent can be invoked for something fundamentally different but with surface similarities, and I feel suspicious of this.
originally posted by: riiver
a reply to: Blaine91555
To perfectly clear, I didn't claim to be any kind of legal expert; I was relying on what the law professor etc. said in the article.