• @[email protected]
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    111 hours ago

    I think I might be okay with encouragement of homicide or murder or terrorism being at least somewhat illegal.

    Question for you though, let’s say you have a person with numerous documented mental health problems, who has been suicidal for quite some time, they post some awful shit on a forum one day when upset. One of the responses is to go take a long walk off a short pier. Only they go and do that, with a bunch of rocks in a backpack, and they drown.

    What punishment would you prescribe for the person who told them to take a long walk off a short pier?

    Making things illegal is easy, but all the law does at the end of the day is a list of if you do X your punishment will be Y.
    So for the dude that told him to take a long walk off a short pier, what is the punishment?

    • @GeneralInterest
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      26 hours ago

      If it was just one occurrence then maybe a large fine or some community service. If someone does it multiple times then maybe prison time. I’m just guessing really. People who are more knowledgeable about the justice system than I am could probably answer this better.