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PathAsc
Nov 15, 2011

Hail SS-18 Satan may he cleanse us with nuclear fire

PISS TAPE IS REAL

Fair enough, I'm wrong on those counts. I was being obtuse as well.

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Soup du Journey
Mar 20, 2006

by FactsAreUseless

PathAsc posted:

No, and my mental issues aside: are you adverse to having a pointed discussion?
People who lack agency in their lives (or who feel like they do) will often channel their self-loathing into anger at others. This anger is often expressed through language that reveals their own perceived impotence. I'm sorry that an ill child who was coerced into harming himself has triggered you, but I hope you get the help you need and deserve :(

Loutre
Jan 14, 2004

✓COMFY
✓CLASSY
✓HORNY
✓PEPSI
Hey what about actively convincing an underaged person to send you/post nudes? Someone they know and trust sending hundreds of messages grooming them to do it.

Do you think they would or should get off scot-free if they managed to not be "in possession" of kiddy porn at trial time by deleting it? Is the actual act of convincing them a legal right?

Centrist Dad
Nov 13, 2007

When I see your posting
College Slice
This court case reminds me of the "Pusher" episode of the x-files. Didn't he also "push" people to kill themselves? I forget how the episode ended...I think he ended up pushing Mulder to go on a date with him or something.

500excf type r
Mar 7, 2013

I'm as annoying as the high-pitched whine of my motorcycle, desperately compensating for the lack of substance in my life.

Loutre posted:

Hey what about actively convincing an underaged person to send you/post nudes? Someone they know and trust sending hundreds of messages grooming them to do it.

Do you think they would or should get off scot-free if they managed to not be "in possession" of kiddy porn at trial time by deleting it? Is the actual act of convincing them a legal right?

i think it would never get to court if there was no evidence

facebook jihad
Dec 18, 2007

by R. Guyovich
Convincing someone to kill themselves is a bad thing

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

Loutre posted:

Hey what about actively convincing an underaged person to send you/post nudes? Someone they know and trust sending hundreds of messages grooming them to do it.

Do you think they would or should get off scot-free if they managed to not be "in possession" of kiddy porn at trial time by deleting it? Is the actual act of convincing them a legal right?

I hope you are convicted.

COMRADES
Apr 3, 2017

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

facebook jihad posted:

Is that a real thing? Because it kind of makes sense

Yeah. The logic is that a judge is on average going to be more likely to follow the letter of the law in their decision vs jury can be swayed by dumb stuff like 'but, a white girl!'

COMRADES fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Jun 22, 2017

Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here

COMRADES posted:

Yeah. The logic is that a judge is on average going to more likely to follow the letter of the law in their decision vs jury can be swayed by dumb stuff like 'but, a white girl!'

The only white women I want to see in prison are the lesbian ones from the adult movies.

Three Olives
Apr 10, 2005

Not a single fucking olive in sight

facebook jihad posted:

Convincing someone to kill themselves is a bad thing

Bad but I'm pretty iffy on if it should be a crime.

COMRADES
Apr 3, 2017

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

EX250 Type R posted:

i think it would never get to court if there was no evidence

If they have the messages that is enough.

Why don't you have a seat, right over there?

Three Olives
Apr 10, 2005

Not a single fucking olive in sight
I mean how much do we know about the "victim"? Maybe what the girl said was all true and her biggest crime was lying for attention in public.

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo
Was this a public facebook or whatever?

Klyith
Aug 3, 2007

GBS Pledge Week

COMRADES posted:

Yeah. The logic is that a judge is on average going to be more likely to follow the letter of the law in their decision vs jury can be swayed by dumb stuff like 'but, a white girl!'

this can work in the other direction though, for example if the accused is black.

or if she acts unremorseful, looks like a supervillain, and the evidence on display is a string of text messages that make the sender look like a complete psychopath.

juries are weird. there have been plenty of innocent people locked up on the weakest of evidence just because they didn't break down and scream NOOOOOOOOOOO! at the heavens when they learned their family was dead. your 12 peers are generally 12 idiots who watch TV all day and think $15 per diem, a crappy lunch, and an excuse to skip work is a good deal.

Thursday Next
Jan 11, 2004

FUCK THE ISLE OF APPLES. FUCK THEM IN THEIR STUPID ASSES.

Veshpo posted:

When you call everything murder, it cheapens actual murder.

everybody look at this loving post




look at it

Killed a Girl in 96
Jun 15, 2001

DON'T STOP CAN'T STOP

PathAsc posted:

Fair enough, I'm wrong on those counts. I was being obtuse as well.

I don't know any of the context for your discussion, but I saw you being humble and wanted to say go gently caress yourself you piece of poo poo.

Veshpo
May 23, 2016

Thursday Next posted:

everybody look at this loving post




look at it

You can put it on my goddammed headstone

Soup du Journey
Mar 20, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
i'd miss my dead gay coerced-into-suicide son, but theres just so many manslaughter charges these days that i can't be bothered to care :sigh:

PathAsc
Nov 15, 2011

Hail SS-18 Satan may he cleanse us with nuclear fire

PISS TAPE IS REAL

Killed a Girl in 96 posted:

I don't know any of the context for your discussion, but I saw you being humble and wanted to say go gently caress yourself you piece of poo poo.

Why not tell me to kill myself instead? I feel like that may be your true feelings, don't let your life be a lie. I believe in you!

Luxury Communism
Aug 22, 2015

by Lowtax

Soup du Journey posted:

hehe please explain to me how you think prosecutorial discretion should work

We could start by giving it to black people and taking it away from the politically connected and their scumbag idiot children.

mbt
Aug 13, 2012

PathAsc posted:

Why not tell me to kill myself instead? I feel like that may be your true feelings, don't let your life be a lie. I believe in you!

listen I'm not telling you to die, but I do think you should get back in the truck

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

Soup du Journey posted:

i'd miss my dead gay coerced-into-suicide son, but theres just so many manslaughter charges these days that i can't be bothered to care :sigh:

how did we make it this far without a heathers reference

PathAsc
Nov 15, 2011

Hail SS-18 Satan may he cleanse us with nuclear fire

PISS TAPE IS REAL

Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:

listen I'm not telling you to die, but I do think you should get back in the truck

I in a truck, now what?

Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here

PathAsc posted:

I in a truck, now what?



Pretend you are driving and make rumbling noises with your lips to simulate the noise of the truck. Optionally, you can pretend like you are a fireman and also make siren noises.

PathAsc
Nov 15, 2011

Hail SS-18 Satan may he cleanse us with nuclear fire

PISS TAPE IS REAL

Literally A Person posted:

Pretend you are driving and make rumbling noises with your lips to simulate the noise of the truck. Optionally, you can pretend like you are a fireman and also make siren noises.

Ok, now what? I'm starting to feel pretty connected with this vehicle.

Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here

PathAsc posted:

Ok, now what? I'm starting to feel pretty connected with this vehicle.

Now take video and pictures of yourself doing this and show us. I promise we won't judge Because there are probably like ten people in this thread who do this poo poo like everyday.

500excf type r
Mar 7, 2013

I'm as annoying as the high-pitched whine of my motorcycle, desperately compensating for the lack of substance in my life.

COMRADES posted:

If they have the messages that is enough.

Why don't you have a seat, right over there?

if they state has evidence then it makes the rest of his hypothetical moot

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004
see the issue is she was TEXTING him to kill himself it's freedom of speech not freedom of sending dumb texts read the fuckin constiution

Jolo
Jun 4, 2007

ive been playing with magnuts tying to change the wold as we know it

I have to think that Olympic Shotput Gold Medalist Michelle Carter is not too happy about Big Head Mode and her antics. She works her rear end off, wins a gold medal, sets Olympic shotput records, and still ends up the second result in a Wikipedia search for "Michelle Carter." I think that Michelle the athlete probably has to do something illegal in order to regain that top spot. More gold medals isn't going to do it. She needs to rob an art museum or kill someone with emojis or something.

Shout out to current Olympian and future Emoji Killer : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Carter_(athlete)

COMRADES
Apr 3, 2017

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

maskenfreiheit posted:

see the issue is she was TEXTING him to kill himself it's freedom of speech not freedom of sending dumb texts read the fuckin constiution

Well it was more of a manslaughter thing in this case.

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva

Noblesse Obliged posted:

Though her time in prison will be short she will serve a much longer sentence in the super max prison of her head

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva
at some point you just gotta say embrace it and shave the fucker, imo

blarzgh
Apr 14, 2009

SNITCHIN' RANDY
Grimey Drawer
This isn't a "Freedom of Speech" issue, it's a causation issue. It's precedent because now 'words' have been raised to the level of physical violence or weapons in their legal ability to cause death.

That's a bad precedent because it's realtively easy to determine whether a bullet killed someone. It's extremely problematic to put it up for vote whether someone's words 'killed' someone.

At the far end of the spectrum is what this girl did; the most desperate, concerted effort to kill someone with words. It's good, context ignored , that she's in jail, because she did a bad thing.

At the other end of the spectrum is someone telling their friend to 'gently caress off', and that friend goes home and writes a note saying, I killed myself because Joe told me to gently caress off, and he knew I wanted to kill myself, and then sticks his head in the oven.

If in your mind, the difference between the number and severity of the words is relevant, then you have a very dangerous mindset. A physical act either kills someone, or it doesn't - there is no spectrum. If words can be weapons, then everything you say to any other person is technically on the spectrum of whether or not it has the power to legally cause their death.

She was convicted of Killing someone without Killing anyone. If you can't appreciate the dangers of that because you're so mad at the psycho bitch that did this, then you should really step back and take a breath.

Who What Now
Sep 10, 2006

by Azathoth

blarzgh posted:

This isn't a "Freedom of Speech" issue, it's a causation issue. It's precedent because now 'words' have been raised to the level of physical violence or weapons in their legal ability to cause death.

That's a bad precedent because it's realtively easy to determine whether a bullet killed someone. It's extremely problematic to put it up for vote whether someone's words 'killed' someone.

At the far end of the spectrum is what this girl did; the most desperate, concerted effort to kill someone with words. It's good, context ignored , that she's in jail, because she did a bad thing.

At the other end of the spectrum is someone telling their friend to 'gently caress off', and that friend goes home and writes a note saying, I killed myself because Joe told me to gently caress off, and he knew I wanted to kill myself, and then sticks his head in the oven.

If in your mind, the difference between the number and severity of the words is relevant, then you have a very dangerous mindset. A physical act either kills someone, or it doesn't - there is no spectrum. If words can be weapons, then everything you say to any other person is technically on the spectrum of whether or not it has the power to legally cause their death.

She was convicted of Killing someone without Killing anyone. If you can't appreciate the dangers of that because you're so mad at the psycho bitch that did this, then you should really step back and take a breath.

If you clutch those pearls any tighter your going to grind them into dust.

blarzgh
Apr 14, 2009

SNITCHIN' RANDY
Grimey Drawer

Who What Now posted:

If you clutch those pearls any tighter your going to grind them into dust.

If you clutch my nuts any lighter, I'm not going to finish.

Thirsty Girl
Dec 5, 2015

blarzgh posted:

This isn't a "Freedom of Speech" issue, it's a causation issue. It's precedent because now 'words' have been raised to the level of physical violence or weapons in their legal ability to cause death.

That's a bad precedent because it's realtively easy to determine whether a bullet killed someone. It's extremely problematic to put it up for vote whether someone's words 'killed' someone.

At the far end of the spectrum is what this girl did; the most desperate, concerted effort to kill someone with words. It's good, context ignored , that she's in jail, because she did a bad thing.

At the other end of the spectrum is someone telling their friend to 'gently caress off', and that friend goes home and writes a note saying, I killed myself because Joe told me to gently caress off, and he knew I wanted to kill myself, and then sticks his head in the oven.

If in your mind, the difference between the number and severity of the words is relevant, then you have a very dangerous mindset. A physical act either kills someone, or it doesn't - there is no spectrum. If words can be weapons, then everything you say to any other person is technically on the spectrum of whether or not it has the power to legally cause their death.

She was convicted of Killing someone without Killing anyone. If you can't appreciate the dangers of that because you're so mad at the psycho bitch that did this, then you should really step back and take a breath.

manslaughter often involves "killing somebody without killing them" you naive baby

blarzgh
Apr 14, 2009

SNITCHIN' RANDY
Grimey Drawer

Thirsty Girl posted:

manslaughter often involves "killing somebody without killing them" you naive baby

I love it when people are so fired up on the internet that they don't worry about what they're saying, or who they're saying it to.

blarzgh
Apr 14, 2009

SNITCHIN' RANDY
Grimey Drawer
And if in your head you're thinking of the culpability for the homicide of another during the co-commission of a related felony, then you're talking about an even more dangerous standard where if you happen to be carrying enough drugs with your friend in the car, and your friend talks someone else into killing themselves, you're going to prison.

Edit: and even here I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt because the element of causation in felony liability is still dependent on some act that could have caused the individual's death.

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013



blarzgh posted:

I love it when people are so fired up on the internet that they don't worry about what they're saying, or who they're saying it to.

You don't really need to explain why your posts are so dumb - we get it.

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DogonCrook
Apr 24, 2016

I think my 20 years as hurricane chaser might be a little relevant ive been through more hurricanws than moat shiitty newscasters
"It's precedent because now 'words' have been raised to the level of physical violence or weapons in their legal ability to cause death"

Lol was this your crazy friends facebook or something? Nice find!

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