Thanks for your informative post. When listening to Rush today, I did not get a sense Rush’s take was that this was a slippery slope, but that the girlfriend should be absolved of any accountability. I think that Rush also brought in (I wasn’t clear if he actually said this) that someone who is goading or driving another person to commit murder should also not be held accountable. Do you remember any mention of that by Rush? He connected the suicide with a hypothetical murder, but I wasn’t clear what his thinking was or how he connected the two. The caller was questioning him too, so it wasn’t just me that was scratching my head.
Clearly this woman is a pig but this guy was driving her nuts with his BS
She did not kill him but she felt that he was killing her with BS
Rush is simply saying take a wide berth around this stuff lest you end up on the rocks
Estrogen tossed waters
Rush had a larger point that he was trying to make which I didn’t get either. He said that she wasn’t even there. (She was communicating with him via text and phone calls.) His larger point was that you don’t want decisions like this because, I think, he thought it is a stretch. And it would be used to hurt people. I didn’t follow it. I did watch the show about this case online Sat night and, despite the fact that they were both taking anti-depressants at some time, there was never any communication with the parents or anyone else, re his deteriorating condition.
In fact, according to the show, she was actually telling him to do it. Had this been a worthy goal, it would have been admirable. She did everything, even so far as telling him to get back in when he was having trouble breathing, to display a total disregard for life.
His parents were on the show as well as his sisters. None of them saw this coming. It is so sad for the family, compounded by the fact that he kept texting/phoning her and her responses to him kept pushing him in the wrong direction.
I didn’t hear slippery slope either. The caller was a fireman and he, I think, was wanting to side with us, as he mentioned people yelling ‘jump’ or ‘fire’ in a crowded theater. But, he was deferring to Rush and not saying his opinion.