(July 17, 2015 at 8:58 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I can be punished, yes...but that's just a summary of the field as it stands today, not how strong the justification for that punishment actually -is-. I don;t think it's very strong....but, people don't get charged with that very often here, even when they get on national TV and say "bomb them" - so obviously we're showing -a little- restraint in utilizing the full authority of law. This makes me very happy, even if the comments of those nutballs doesn't.
Why do you think the case is weak? In criminal law finding the cause and the author of the crime is imperative. There's many theories, and concepts - The author is not always the person causing the material damage - Sometimes you can be the author by negligence without realizing what your actions (or words) would cause. Imagine the following case - Person A decides to place in a bomb on a school to blow it up and even has a code to trigger it - The following day some random cleaning employee without any connection to person A discovers the bomb and decides to still trigger it (how he did it isn't important) because he hates his job and wants little children to die. Who do we punish? Just the guy who triggered? Would you punish subject A if he didn't trigger the bomb himself or predict that someone else did it for him? (This was an important case in class, I have worse ones if you want)
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
