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To: dfwgator
So if I fire a person, and they wind up killing themselves because of it, should I be held liable?

I understand your point, but it is not comparable to this situation. Firing a person is a lawful activity; releasing a video in this manner is unlawful. The crime creates the liability.

88 posted on 09/30/2010 12:40:29 PM PDT by TonyInOhio ( Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils.)
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To: TonyInOhio
The crime creates the liability.

The crime creates only the liabilities specified in the statute. It does not then create a liability for anything the victim may or may not do as a result of being victimized. While some of my analogies are deliberately somewhat hyperbolic, the stretch between saying these punks should be charged with manslaughter for "causing" this boy's suicide is not quite so far from the claim that US foreign policy was the cause of the 9/11 WTC and Pentagon attacks as would first appear.

98 posted on 09/30/2010 12:49:29 PM PDT by VRWCmember (Jesus called us to be Salt and Light, not Vinegar and Water.)
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