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Slippery slope. If I tell someone on the internet to kill themselves and it turns out they're actually suicidally depressed, should I be charged with a crime?
by cloakandswagger 10y ago
Slippery slope. If I tell someone on the internet to kill themselves and it turns out they're actually suicidally depressed, should I be charged with a crime?
What if I post something that's just really offensive? I feel like we've entered a time where people would gladly see the First Amendment trodden over if it means seeing "justice" doled out to nasty people.
- M_Grey 10y agoThis isn't even close to a gray area! The analogy would be finding out that your target is in a given theater, where you then yell "fire!". This was targeted and pre-meditated; the result and the intent were one and the same. Your argument rests on something very different.
- favorited 10y agoEichenwald didn't "turn out" to have epilepsy – he had written about it before. This was someone intentionally attempting to harm someone by triggering a seizure. And your hypothetical situation isn't hypothetical – people who cyberbully others into committing suicide are certainly charged for their crimes.
- LargeWu 10y agoYes, in fact, there is precedent for this: http://abcnews.go.com/US/massachusetts-teen-accused-urging-boyfriend-commit-suicide-stand/story?id=40370965 http://abcnews.go.com/US/massachusetts-teen-accused-urging-b...