Surely it depends on details. The cop told a lie that would obviously drive some people to suicidal thoughts ("you may have killed an innocent person"). If Carr

Surely it depends on details. The cop told a lie that would obviously drive some people to suicidal thoughts ("you may have killed an innocent person"). If Carrey did something similarly concrete, then yes, he would reasonably fall into the same category by the parent post's qualifiers. Or he may have used less direct torments, being generally cruel over a timeframe. That wouldn't necessarily be better or worse, but it would call for a different analysis. The point being that the comparison seems fruitless. Whether or not they're the same depends on the details, and whether the answer is yes or no, I don't see how it affects this case. Edit: "killed" -> "may have killed"