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Former Nurse Charged With Aiding Suicides Via Web
mernil writes "A former US nurse has been charged with two counts of aiding suicides on the Internet, US officials say. William Melchert-Dinkel, 47, is accused of encouraging the suicides of Mark Drybrough from Coventry, UK, in 2005 and Canada's Nadia Kajouji in 2008. Melchert-Dinkel, from Minnesota, allegedly posed as a female nurse, instructing people in suicide chatrooms how to take their lives. He reportedly admitted helping five or fewer people kill themselves. Some legal experts say it could be difficult to prosecute Melchert-Dinkel under a rarely used law because he allegedly only encouraged the victims to kill themselves, without physically helping them to take their lives."
All your FPS addicts arses are gonna be in jail for not-so-subtly beating people's psyche to a pulp on the interwebs. NO, it was not 'just a game' -- it was meticulously gang-planned, very realistic sadistic, visceral, murder training simulation, with voice torture, body parts, blood sputtering, resulting in very real psychological damage leading directly to depression, lost productivity, income and wages, depression, anger, addiction, violence, murder, and suicides.
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Suicide of a person of a mainstream western culture is the ultimate act of selfishness.
That doesn't mean that it may not be appropriate in some instances. It means that in western cultures the decision to suicide is usually made at a time when the person is seriously under estimating his value to his circle of family, friends, and acquaintances.
Other cultures value things differently. Suicide in some eastern cultures is apparently sometimes regarded as a way of protecting the person's social circle from the burden of shame that his dishonorable actions would otherwise tar them with. Suicide in some warrior cultures is apparently sometimes a self-sacrifice for the benefit of the warrior's brethren or for those he has been fighting for. Suicide bombers appear to be a special case where brainwashing techniques have been used to artificially impose portions of the warrior ethic on the suggestible. There are definitely crimes involved with that last, but it would seem that in almost all cases the suicide bomber is another victim and not one of the perps.
Should any of these be legalized? With our current modes of handling estates and insurances policies, etc, probably not. We would end up in a hellacious mess. Can you imagine the circus lawyers would make over the insurance policy of the ex soldier who wrapped himself around a live grenade in the crowded subway? Lawyers, actuaries, and writers of insurance policies already have too much space for erecting their circus tents. Should the crimes of suicide or attempted suicide be prosecuted? In general, no. There might be specific instances where this should be done: I think someone who straps on a dynamite vest should have all his insurance policies summarily cancelled. But these situations are rare in western societies; most of the time prosecution would just visit more hardship on the survivors with no particular benefit to anyone.
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Sexual intercourse should be a human right.
From what I know, from a humanist philosophy point of view, any human being needs to have the right to full control of their body. So if someone wants to do something insane with their body, they are entitled to it (poenis goes WHERE?). Encouraging mutilation or sex however, would not be humanist (Somebody, think of the children! And hey, we're already past 6 billions of population! Earth is not a clown's car!). So if you decide you want to have sex, fine (Although I still despise you, crazy pervert!). If you want to preach people should want to have sex, need help to have sex, should be sold equipment, manuals, videos, books, have sex parties, night club lounges, sexual workshops, masturbation encouragement boot camps (LOL, WTF?), pro porn marketing campaigns, sexual education in school, porn industry awards, also tight jeans and 90% of US humour etc, all of which is speech, well, that would be psychological violence. Thats ideals, philosophy, morality, etc however. The field of law is another matter, and how to word the law so it's not abused either way is not so easy.