Should encouraging suicide be a crime?

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Konono

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If you encourage someone to end their life by suicide, or neglect to stop them going through with it, are you inherently implicated for their death? Michelle Carter, who encouraged her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III, to kill himself, is at the center of an involuntary manslaughter charge over his 2014 death and could face up to 20 years of imprisonment if convicted. Massachusetts' highest court will be hearing arguments Thursday on whether the case against Carter will go forward.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/michelle-carter-case-teen-texted-162500634.html?nhp=1

The history in this case seems to be that she did try to stop him and then after he kept talking about killing himself for over a month she basically got tired of it and told him to do it.

Even if she never tried to stop him, should it be a crime?
 
If it was your daughter being bullied in school or on social media to kill herself, you might think it was a crime.....

How about Azealia Banks saying Sarah Palin should be gang-raped by the burliest, blackest men....should that be a crime ?
 
Konono said:
If you encourage someone to end their life by suicide, or neglect to stop them going through with it, are you inherently implicated for their death? Michelle Carter, who encouraged her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III, to kill himself, is at the center of an involuntary manslaughter charge over his 2014 death and could face up to 20 years of imprisonment if convicted. Massachusetts' highest court will be hearing arguments Thursday on whether the case against Carter will go forward.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/michelle-carter-case-teen-texted-162500634.html?nhp=1

The history in this case seems to be that she did try to stop him and then after he kept talking about killing himself for over a month she basically got tired of it and told him to do it.

Even if she never tried to stop him, should it be a crime?
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It should be a crime only if it's a white conservative telling a minority to go kill himself/herself.

-- The Left
 
Konono said:
If you encourage someone to end their life by suicide, or neglect to stop them going through with it, are you inherently implicated for their death? Michelle Carter, who encouraged her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III, to kill himself, is at the center of an involuntary manslaughter charge over his 2014 death and could face up to 20 years of imprisonment if convicted. Massachusetts' highest court will be hearing arguments Thursday on whether the case against Carter will go forward.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/michelle-carter-case-teen-texted-162500634.html?nhp=1

The history in this case seems to be that she did try to stop him and then after he kept talking about killing himself for over a month she basically got tired of it and told him to do it.

Even if she never tried to stop him, should it be a crime?
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Hell half of JPP would be guilty. I mean who here hasn't encouraged Skidmark to commit suicide at least once?
 
If someone is standing on a bridge, causing a traffic jam, the angry drivers should be entitled to shout "jump, bitch, jump!" as has happened in Seattle.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Hell half of JPP would be guilty. I mean who here hasn't encouraged Skidmark to commit suicide at least once?
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and I would not be in those ranks huh



I give shit to EVERY poster no matter what side if they say those words

NEVER EVER tell someone to kill them selves no matter what
 
evince said:
and I would not be in those ranks huh



I give shit to EVERY poster no matter what side if they say those words

NEVER EVER tell someone to kill them selves no matter what
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That was a joke Desh...a Joke. Where's your sense of humor? Even Skidmark thinks it's funny?
 
its a hard fast rule


don't ever tell someone to kill themselves especially on the internets


You have no idea who you are really talking to
 
It would have to be serious and continued, or you get into terrible trouble. If I tell some bullying halfwit to drop dead, should I be prosecuted? On the other hand, as an ex-Samaritan, I know haw evil people can be, and they do need stopping.
 
Konono said:
If you encourage someone to end their life by suicide, or neglect to stop them going through with it, are you inherently implicated for their death? Michelle Carter, who encouraged her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III, to kill himself, is at the center of an involuntary manslaughter charge over his 2014 death and could face up to 20 years of imprisonment if convicted. Massachusetts' highest court will be hearing arguments Thursday on whether the case against Carter will go forward.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/michelle-carter-case-teen-texted-162500634.html?nhp=1

The history in this case seems to be that she did try to stop him and then after he kept talking about killing himself for over a month she basically got tired of it and told him to do it.

Even if she never tried to stop him, should it be a crime?
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case by case



If you know someone has a severe medical condition and purposefully expose them to toxins that will harm them in hopes they die I think if provable that is a crime


suicidal conditions are the result of medical problems


telling them to go kill them selves when they are telling you repeatedly they are about to kill themselves is the same




evil shit
 
Depends heavily on the circumstances and what you mean by encouraging.

If you yell jump to a person threatening to jump off a bridge, yes, I think that should be a crime.

If you tell a sane person who you don't think has any likelihood of killing himself, in an argument that they should go shoot themselves. That should not be a crime.

If you are a doctor counseling a terminally ill patient and you bring it up as an option that should not be a crime.
 
Jarod said:
Depends heavily on the circumstances and what you mean by encouraging.

If you yell jump to a person threatening to jump off a bridge, yes, I think that should be a crime.

If you tell a sane person who you don't think has any likelihood of killing himself, in an argument that they should go shoot themselves. That should not be a crime.

If you are a doctor counseling a terminally ill patient and you bring it up as an option that should not be a crime.
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What if it's Skidmark?
 
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