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Originally Posted by shakran
Yes but by that argument the girlfriend who breaks up with the suicidal boyfriend risks getting charged with murder. Sorry, but people have to take responsibility for their own actions at some point. Yes joking about suicide is an asshole thing to do, and I think the people in the chatroom who were joking about it are assholes (And I do think they were joking - I don't think anyone seriously believed he was going to do it). However, being an asshole does not automatically make you guilty of a crime. This guy made the decision to hang himself. The responsibility for that rests squarely on his shoulders.
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not quite. if the girl friend takes a broken man and taunts him, and tells him to kill him self, and he does, she should be charged with involuntary manslaughter.
i say Charged with, not found guilty of, the jury will decide if and who was responsible. i doubt the girl friend would be found guilty unless she really tried to have him kill himself. further i doubt more then just a few in the chat room would be charged, and only the worst of them found guilty if anyone. having not been there i don't know the circumstances.