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That might necessarily depend on the effect, fuse.
Words have meaning, they have power, and they can have consequences attached to them.

What if someone yells Fire and it can be proven that because of that outburst, someone or many is/are badly hurt or even dies as a result of it?

Words and actions have consequences. Are we to forgive and forget simply because it was not someone’s intention to harm, if THAT was the case?
I don’t think that this is such a black and white issue, do you?

I don’t necessarily or usually believe in shoulds but weighing all the facts, do you think that there are times when someone shouting FIRE which leads to very harmful consequences or death ~~~ belongs in prison?
When would that scenario NOT cause them to deserve prison?

Is there justice in that ~~ or not?

Someone driving while texting ~~~ accidentally (though in my book not much of an accident) hurts or kills another, perhaps a child.
Does that person belong in jail or does that person simply deserve compassion because oh, I didn’t mean to do it.
Is stupidity or depraved unconsciousness a reason for mercy and a get-out-of-jail free card?

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Oh Arc, I’m right there with you. I was mirroring the OP.

It’s pretty obvious that framing the issue this way ignores critical pieces of context essential to the discussion. You don’t get in trouble merely for shouting fire or texting someone “kys,” only when your shouting is deliberately calculated to panic a mass of people or when you pressure, persuade, and assist a young person to kill himself.

Nobody in this thread, or on this forum seemingly, can really approach the nuance of this thread, of the court proceedings linked within it.

Should it or should it not be illegal for people to tell each other “KYS”? Because the court proceeding sets the precedent. To which degree ought bullying teenagers and children be prosecuted for manslaughter or murder? All of this is a step in the wrong direction, in my opinion.

There are no children…that’s an arbitrary legal illusion. They are adults in younger bodies.