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How? What qualification or rhetorical flourish makes it objectively, explicitly clear that these are not serious threats?
by Aqueous 11y ago
How? What qualification or rhetorical flourish makes it objectively, explicitly clear that these are not serious threats?
- tptacek 11y agoThis is a rare instance in which the downvotes themselves actually answer your question.
- Aqueous 11y agoThe downvotes demonstrate that the community has decided it's so obvious that these aren't threats that it's not even worth explaining. We on the Internet are viewing these comments through the prism of our own experience viewing other online comments, and that experience causes us to "just know" that they aren't threats. "just knowing" is an argument that wouldn't stand up in court, though. Nothing in law is obvious
- rayiner 11y agoReasonable person standard is one of those situations where "just knowing" is actually an argument that stands up in court.
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