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Genuine question: Is telling people to commit suicide protected free speech? AVers aren’t much different here. Rather than saying “kill yourself”, it’s more li

• true_religion 8y ago
  You can tell people to commit suicide if you have no malicious intent. For example if you think by dying you will go to a better place, then that's fine. Antivaxxers genuinely believe that vacinations cause illness. That they are wrong doesn't make their speech illegal.
• dragonwriter 8y ago
  > Genuine question: Is telling people to commit suicide protected free speech? Telling people in general that they should is protected; telling a particular person that they should may or may not be depending on other factors. > AVers aren’t much different here. They are quite a bit different. Yes, not vaccinated increase risk of infection, sickness, and death for both the person choosing that action and other people, but it is a much less proximate relationship to any death than suicide does. Advocating suicide is not itself generally illegal, and advocating courses of action that are not intended to cause death but do in fact increase its likelihood is even less likely to be illegal in general.