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Originally Posted by shakran
What's the material difference between handing out flyers to the neighbors and talking to them in person? The information still gets passed along. NG took on a large responsibility here -one no one should take on without a solid grounding in facts. She took responsibility for alerting the neighbors that someone on the sex offender list lived near them. If one of the neighbors then started harassing this guy, she'd be responsible for kicking that off. That's why many of us in this thread advocate actually finding out WHY he is on the list, BEFORE we go running to tell the neighbors.
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If you'd read what I've written in this post and earlier, I'm advocating exactly that.
If the neighbor harrasses the guy without any involvement by NG, how is she responsble for that? If she introduces a couple to each other and the guy ends up beating the woman, is NG responsible in any real sense? If she lets people know that a politician is moving in down the street and neighbors start protesting outside that front door, how is she responsible? The point is that other people are responsible for their own actions, and NG is responsible for her own. She's no more responsible for harrassment by someone else than I am for your actions.
As long as she's just notifying neighbors of what's she found, she's well within her rights.
As far as talking to neighbors vs. distributing flyers, one is a form of private speech and the other is a form of public speech. One is a conversation, and the other one is harrassment.
I suggest that everyone go back and read the original post before commenting any further. This thread has warped waaaay of the original post, even more so than usual. I'm as responsible for that as anyone else, but there are lots of erronious assumptions made.