Free speech and its manslaughter attempts: a First Amendment thread.

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TROIKA CURES GREEK: Jun 30, 2015; by R. Guyovich

Who What Now posted:

Is that really pertinent to anything?

The degree of the relationship was absolutely incredibly relevant.

This is a bad thread because most the people don't actually have a single clue beyond their feels on the topic, which makes for a pretty boring thread. In the real world most legal professionals were very much divided on this so it's clearly not a cut and dried thing legally.

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TROIKA CURES GREEK: Jun 30, 2015; by R. Guyovich

roomforthetuna posted:

Well, that was my point, you seem to be agreeing.
The judge decided to call it "involuntary manslaughter" which seems like a pretty clear example of a thing that it really isn't.
What it is is "deliberately and maliciously persuading someone to commit suicide", and there's no crime for that. The concern is that if someone decides that that is a crime, whether by writing an appropriate law or by setting a precedent that this act is now going to be legally a subset of "involuntary manslaughter", whether that law would also cover "accidentally persuading someone to commit suicide" or "deliberately but benevolently persuading someone to commit suicide" or "attempted persuading someone to commit suicide".

Despite the title this is mainly about the case in the OP:

http://seriouspod.com/sio51-andrew-torrez-manslaughter-philando-castile-michelle-carter/

It's by the openargs guys it's really good and they discuss the things you are questioning.

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