Your daily "What the heck are they thinking?" post

[Nystul]

Personal responsibility cuts both ways. The internet is just a tool for exchanging information, and can be used for good or for ill. It cannot be held responsible. But someone who eggs another person into committing a suicide is partially responsible. Just as the person who committed suicide made their own choice, these 'accomplices' had three options, try to help, back away from the situation, or try to push the suicide into happening. What they did in some of these cases is not much different from pushing someone off the ledge or handing a suicidal person a loaded gun, which are both criminal acts in many locations.

Anyone remember the movie "Pump up the Volume" with Christian Slater? Pretty hokie movie, but it presented a case somewhat similar to these.