alt Hacker NewsI'm fine living in a society where "venting" reasonably actionable threats gets you put in prison as if they were real threats.
I'm fine living in a society where "venting" reasonably actionable threats gets you put in prison as if they were real threats.
> reasonably actionable threats
This is the part that law doesn't understand. It's binary, crime or no crime, threats or no threats, there is no gradient. The judge and jury can be the gradient, but as soon as precedence grows, that margin keeps shrinking.
One person screams at another "I will kill you for this!". How do we judge 'reasonably actionable' in this case? Words can't kill, so it's always an empty threat?