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Woman convinced her boyfriend to kill himself and was convicted: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michelle-carter-found-guilty-encouraging-boyfriend-s-suic

• freejazz 4y ago
  She was convicted because she breached her duty of care after he informed her that he attempted suicide, and she told him to get back in the car and then proceeded to do absolutely nothing about it. The judge was spot in noting that by having the conversations with him that she did, at the time, she had a duty of care that she did not uphold. Your characterization of her liability is completely inapposite what the court found, it is misleading, and it is being done so to serve your own political beliefs regarding speech.
  • wonderwonder 4y ago
    interesting. What are my beliefs regarding freedom of speech? I attempted to provide an example of what the OP spoke of, might have been wrong. My beliefs regarding freedom of speech is that is should be just shy of absolute. Only limit should be believable threats of violence. I appreciate you telling me what I believe and my political beliefs though.
    • freejazz 4y ago
      When did I say what your political beliefs were? It's obvious to anyone reading your post, that you shared what you did to further your beliefs. Sheesh! And go figure, you're just shy of an absolutist. Who would have guessed that? (me! I would have!)
      • wonderwonder 4y ago
        Lol, I'm guessing all of your posts are to hamper you political beliefs? Sheesh indeed my friend, sheesh indeed.
        • freejazz 4y ago
          So because your post was obviously made in an effort to expound upon the validity of your beliefs, it must be the case that I only ever do that? I don't follow. I wasn't projecting, I was just using basic reading comprehension skills to understand why someone would write what they did. It's a totally normal skill: https://www.lsac.org/lsat/taking-lsat/test-format/reading-comprehension/reading-comprehension-sample-questions https://www.lsac.org/lsat/taking-lsat/test-format/reading-co...
          • wonderwonder 4y ago
            I honestly have no idea what you just said :) I look forward to your insulting response.
  • jojobas 4y ago
    Where did you get that? The court decision does not mention "duty of care" (which is a well established term for situations that have nothing in common with this one). She created a different kind of duty for herself, not by any of the preceding messages but rather by the final "get back in" message.
    • freejazz 4y ago
      I was just going off memory. You are right that it was that specific message and not the previous messages.