Those who seek sexual gratification from these images are likely the ones who are going to pursue the actual act in the future, or so goes the reasoning. I'd love to see some science on that assumption someday. I kinda feel like it's the exact same reasoning that goes "violent videogames lead to violent people"... which isn't exactly true.
I agree with you, but telling someone to wrap someone up in a sheet and then beat them isn't the same thing as telling them to defend themselves when attacked. Well, I'm assuming there is a physical reason why it is impossible for the wife to defend herself when the drunk husband attacks (such as a size and combat experience gap).
In which case, The Art of War applies, and all is fair.
Sorry if this offends your delicate sensibilities, but at the end of the day, Megan chose to end her own life. When an adult seduces a child to push them to make the wrong choice, the adult is responsible, not the child.
The age of consent in Missouri is 17. A child is not in charge of their own health because they haven't developed the maturity needed to make life and death decisions about themselves.
Then, in the blink of an eye, it's all taken away. The friend is revealed to be someone malicious, someone manipulative enough to string out this child for months at a time before pulling the rug out from under her. She's now left alone, with no one to turn to.
Okay, you get an "A-" for Drama 101, but puh-lease.
If an online friend screws you over, you move on. You don't kill yourself, simple as that.
Yes, we can all loathe the evil Lori Drew, and she very much deserves the shunning of her community. But to say she "murdered" Megan? get serious. We always have choices. Killing ourselves - or not - Always counts as a choice, one which Megan chose over "dealing". Such as the choice to spend months carefully destroying the emotional balance of a child whom you know to have a history of depression and sucidal thought, and the choice to then suggest that the world would be better without her?
The choice to willingly inflict pain on someone and suggesting when tey are at their weakest a way to end their suffering for good?
Certainly, she was cruel, but did she actually INTEND to drive that girl to suicide? Involuntary manslaughter, sometimes called criminally negligent homicide in the United States, gross negligence manslaughter in England and Wales or culpable homicide in Scotland occurs where there is no intention to kill or cause serious injury but death is due to recklessness or criminal negligence.
Recklessness or willful blindness is defined as a wanton disregard for the known dangers of a particular situation.
Imagine killing bums and leaving suicide notes to get rid of people in power that you don't like. I'm imagining the time when you end up on a war vet who's homeless because his shellshock made him too violent for normal society, and I'm smiling at the mental image of the well-deserved beatdown you'll get.
This women is basically a online troll, as much as we may not like her or think she is evil she is no different then any other online troll. The difference is she knew the girl in meatspace and conspired with others against her for months, eventually causing the death of a child.
But aside from that, if this becomes a precedent to enact the death penalty on trolls? Good.
As for the mother? She thought this was just a normal "my life is over" teenage tantrum, she couldn't know that her daughter was the victim of concerted emotional abuse inflicted by an team lead by an adult, she's a victim as well, not a co-conspirator.
Which raises the question - if we can take care of ourselves and our families with some help from our community, why does the State wish to stop that?
Because, like it or not, the woman in your example was no better beating her husband than he was beating her. It may have worked, but more often than not, it doesn't. I know people who've been hospitalized for shit like that. I know of (second hand) multiple people who've been killed for shit like that. Either the husband died or the wife died because she tried to "fight" back. Violence isn't bad. Violence is neutral. Performing CPR is a very violent act, it breaks ribs and bruises the person being saved, but the act isn't bad because it's violent.
Self defense is not "no better" than attacking someone. Another person has initiated the violence, you just turn it against them. So what if the attacker dies? He chose to attack, anything proportional that happens to him is his own fault, since it wouldn't have happened to him if he hadn't decided to do it to someone else.
If somebody tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back.
her parents absolutely do not understand that this is a real illness -- they have repeatedly told her that she just needs to "snap out of it" and pull herself together, and that she just needs to exercise some willpower and stop feeling the way she does. I'll one up ya: I've seen someone on leave for depression say that to someone being treated for general anxiety disorder. "You should just not worry so much"
Ignorance can't even be cured by having it happen to you, apparently. People can compartmentalize their understanding.
People don't seem to consider that she's telling the truth. Well, an entirely fictitious person was created for the purpose of messing with someone real, we seem to think the people involved might be liars.
It's hard to see what she actually did that was illegal. This could have just as easily happened had the boyfriend been real. Instead of invented specifically to toy with her emotions for the purpose of revenge?
There seems to be a law out there about willingly inflicting emotional distress. So yes, it is illegal.
Did anyone else read the headline as China is buying Sound Weapons directed at the US? I felt bad for people living in California for a moment. A weaponized transcontinental sonic wave would best be propagated through the earths' core than through the atmosphere, actually. It'd feel like a weird earthquake.
So in China, the government extols the virtues of urinating in your soup while they urinate in your soup, but in the US, the government extols the virtues of urine free soup while urinating in your soup? Actually, they get the Chinese guy to pee in your soup.
The bigger concern, I would think, would be avoiding the amorous attentions of Rodan. No amount of plastic surgery is going to help you cope with THAT. The trick is to get Mothra to keep Rodan in his place.
Speaking of which, have you seen miniature Japanese twin girls anywhere recently?
The more concerning issue is the major bane of jet powered flight - bird hits. At the speed they are talking about, a bird hitting this guy in the head, even with a helmet, stands a good chance of knocking him out. Then you're going to have a dead bird as well as a dead wing-rider. Speaking as a biker who recently saw a very bewildered pigeon zoom very close by, I'd say the bane is not restricted to jets.
Riddles? Dude, he'll fucking kill your entire family on a dare from the devil, ask Job! That was his Godzilla period. When he ran around shooting lasers out of his eyes, ravaging the countryside and toppling over buildings in Tokyo. Nowadays he's old and grumpy, sitting in a rocking chair on his porch yelling at the angels to get off the lawn. I dunno, he's been kicking the shit out of Myanmar and China lately.
This guy's been jumping out of planes with jet-powered wings for *years*.. to the point that the big story over a year ago was that the army was considering developing one to give air-dropped troops more flexibility. Supposedly the wings can hold like 200 lbs worth of gear in addition to the "pilot."
It'll be news again when he finally achieves his goal of taking off with just the wing. Not jumping out of a plane. I'm thinking "SEAL-dropping UAVs", dropped from a bigger plane, flies a ways into enemy territory, drops the daring soldier, and flies back undetected (ideally).
there is a related announcement coming soon from world leaders, There is a UFO cult called the Raelians, I did a school paper on them. Basically, the cult leader is knee deep in pussy since he started telling people he's Jesus' half brother by way of their shared alien daddy, Yaveh. Anyhoo, in his second book, said cult leader mentions that his alien overlords have created another race of intelligent beings, nearby, that don't know about them.
So if any aliens ever do land, and they don't know what the hell he's talking about, he's covered.
so that they don't bleed followers in the mayhem to follow They're just covering their ass, just in case. There doesn't need to be any actual aliens, you just need to have all your credible bases covered. What if aliens land and say they never heard about this "god" fellow? Then we say Jesus was unique and we have to spread the good word to the stars!
No, the military should not be doing it. Terrorism is a bogyman meant to scare you into allowing the military to gain more power. It has worked awfully well.
That is kinda like asking Americans if they think terrorism should be fought, and if so should it be done by the US DoD. That's an excellent analogy, because it infers a similar backlash against anyone who doesn't give the desired answer. Anyone who doesn't think that terrorism should be fought, and fought by the US DoD must be a terrorist or terrorist sympathizer. Why do they hate america?
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I kinda feel like it's the exact same reasoning that goes "violent videogames lead to violent people"... which isn't exactly true.
In which case, The Art of War applies, and all is fair.
her own life. When an adult seduces a child to push them to make the wrong choice, the adult is responsible, not the child.
The age of consent in Missouri is 17.
A child is not in charge of their own health because they haven't developed the maturity needed to make life and death decisions about themselves.
enough to string out this child for months at a time before pulling the rug out from under her. She's now left alone, with
no one to turn to.
Okay, you get an "A-" for Drama 101, but puh-lease.
If an online friend screws you over, you move on. You don't kill yourself, simple as that.
Yes, we can all loathe the evil Lori Drew, and she very much deserves the shunning of her community. But
to say she "murdered" Megan? get serious. We always have choices. Killing ourselves - or not - Always
counts as a choice, one which Megan chose over "dealing". Such as the choice to spend months carefully destroying the emotional balance of a child whom you know to have a history of depression and sucidal thought, and the choice to then suggest that the world would be better without her?
The choice to willingly inflict pain on someone and suggesting when tey are at their weakest a way to end their suffering for good?
Choices like that?
Recklessness or willful blindness is defined as a wanton disregard for the known dangers of a particular situation.
But aside from that, if this becomes a precedent to enact the death penalty on trolls? Good.
As for the mother? She thought this was just a normal "my life is over" teenage tantrum, she couldn't know that her daughter was the victim of concerted emotional abuse inflicted by an team lead by an adult, she's a victim as well, not a co-conspirator.
Because, like it or not, the woman in your example was no better beating her husband than he was beating her. It may have worked, but more often than not, it doesn't. I know people who've been hospitalized for shit like that. I know of (second hand) multiple people who've been killed for shit like that. Either the husband died or the wife died because she tried to "fight" back. Violence isn't bad. Violence is neutral. Performing CPR is a very violent act, it breaks ribs and bruises the person being saved, but the act isn't bad because it's violent.
Self defense is not "no better" than attacking someone. Another person has initiated the violence, you just turn it against them. So what if the attacker dies? He chose to attack, anything proportional that happens to him is his own fault, since it wouldn't have happened to him if he hadn't decided to do it to someone else.
If somebody tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back.
Ignorance can't even be cured by having it happen to you, apparently. People can compartmentalize their understanding.
There seems to be a law out there about willingly inflicting emotional distress.
So yes, it is illegal.
And someone died, so yes, this should be illegal.
It'd feel like a weird earthquake.
Speaking of which, have you seen miniature Japanese twin girls anywhere recently?
It'll be news again when he finally achieves his goal of taking off with just the wing. Not jumping out of a plane. I'm thinking "SEAL-dropping UAVs", dropped from a bigger plane, flies a ways into enemy territory, drops the daring soldier, and flies back undetected (ideally).
Basically, the cult leader is knee deep in pussy since he started telling people he's Jesus' half brother by way of their shared alien daddy, Yaveh.
Anyhoo, in his second book, said cult leader mentions that his alien overlords have created another race of intelligent beings, nearby, that don't know about them.
So if any aliens ever do land, and they don't know what the hell he's talking about, he's covered. so that they don't bleed followers in the mayhem to follow They're just covering their ass, just in case. There doesn't need to be any actual aliens, you just need to have all your credible bases covered. What if aliens land and say they never heard about this "god" fellow? Then we say Jesus was unique and we have to spread the good word to the stars!
No, the military should not be doing it. Terrorism is a bogyman meant to scare you into allowing the military to gain more power.
It has worked awfully well.
Riddles? Dude, he'll fucking kill your entire family on a dare from the devil, ask Job!