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Don’t you believe that actions should have consequences?

Do you believe that psychological attacks can have a lasting impact?

Do you think that threatening someone’s friends and families is a reasonable act?

Do you agree that getting an intermediary to kill a third party is still murder? Why can’t the intermediary also be the third party?

This was a pre-meditated and coordinated long term psychological attack, with the explicit goal of getting someone to kill themselves. These actions must have consequences.




I think it is difficult to get the definition of such a law right. You don't want to send someone for jail just for, e.g., frequently arguing with someone and sometimes insulting them.


If the intent is to kill, and the person died through their actions, then it is murder.

The methods and means don't need to be enumerated. The intent and the end state are what is defined in law.

Both the US and Japan have standing here to charge KF members with murder and those that run KF as an accomplice.


Perhaps it doesn’t bother you but I’m worried about giving prosecutors yet another extremely broad tool that they can use to put people in jail on dubious grounds.


A group of people organize together with the intent of killing or harming others on the internet. This feels like an "on the internet" patent moment, absurdly so.




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