Is it illegal to start chanting "Do it! Do it!" when someone is about to commit suicide by jumping off a roof?
Posted Sep 18, 2023, 5:01 PM UTC
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It should be. "do a back-flip" should be the only acceptable thing to yell.
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"Do a barrel roll"
"Shut up, you stupid rabbit!"
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does a back flip and break a neck
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"Do a flip!"
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Where I live, aiding and abetting to suicide is illegal. I think it is 3 years in prison.
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Yes, I think so. Contributing to someone's death/accessory to the suicide
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Yep
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Fwiw abetting a suicide is a crime where I’m at
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Yes, that could probably be abetting, and if not I imagine they could get you on inciting a riot or something similar if they actually did it.
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Not sure if it would apply, but it’s not legal to incite someone else to do harm. But it’s usually applied in cases where like I encouraged you to go beat someone else up or kill them etc. However it seems possible this could be construed to be applicable here, inciting someone to do harm to someone, except in this hypothetical that someone doing the harm is also the one receiving the harm instead of it being directed at someone else.
https://www.talksonlaw.com/briefs/freedom-of-speech-what-constitutes-incitement
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Last time i responded to any self destruction related posts reddit banned me for 3 days so imma stay away this time
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Idk but it is in poor taste
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Illegal I don’t know but I remember that girl that told a guy to do it over text, she went to prison for that
That's a little different than this. That girl spent months of time telling the guy to kill himself in a lot more ways than just saying "do it"
Telling you depressed friend how much no one loves or will miss them then validate their plans and even talk them through the act is a lot more imvolved than one random dick.
Yes and no. If telling them to do it is illegal, that doesn’t mean there is an accept timeline before it becomes illegal