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Originally Posted by AC-Phoenix
And while this guy can certainly be held responsible for deaths he can't be held responsible for a murder someone else comitted. He never planted the idea in their heads.
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Yes, but depending on how you look at it... Kayaba 'technically' pulled the trigger... killing the person. He's also the reason they were put into the life and death situation in the first place.
Which, IMO, is part of where it gets really murky and why new laws would need to be implemented to punish the guilty. And, of course, you couldn't try anyone prior to those laws being put in the books. But who knows, not a lawyer.
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Originally Posted by kyp275
So if you get a phone call one day from a random guy saying every time you turned your TV on he will kill a person, will you be guilty of murder if it turns out he did go out and killed people every time you turned on the TV?
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Fairly certain the answer to that has already been proven to be no. Because some people will gleefully turn their TV on and off a LOT. I remember the psych tests back in the day. "There is a person in the next chamber who has been hooked to electrodes, I want you to push this button, sending a minor electric shock to the person." The results were highly disappointing.