[UA] OT: I don't want to know what is going to happen (long)

[John Scott]

At 23:57 25/05/01 +0800, you wrote:

>And I know where not to turn to for advice.
>
>Roger

"Go not to the mailing list for advice, for they will both answer yes and 
no, and make Babylon-5 references"

This is a bad place to ask for advice about what to do about a friend of 
yours who's making threats against someone else. We don't know the parties 
involved.  We don't know the laws of the country you're in. Given how email 
propogates, it could be all over before some of us have read your message.

So what were you expecting the list-members to say? "Wow, that's so cool?"

Tim gave you the same advice I would have if I'd read your mail before 
reading his.  If someone's life is in danger, you ring the police.  Doesn't 
matter if it means your friend would be locked up - if he's in a state 
where he's making threats like that, you've got to assume that he's capable 
of carrying out those threats.  And if you haven't acted because you don't 
want to get him in trouble, and he does hurt someone, you bear some of the 
moral responsibility for that person being hurt.

ObUA: There isn't any.  Flames to private mail, please.

John


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