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Originally Posted by Clarste
...it's a pretty easy sell. As long as they're aware that there's a possibility of death that should be enough. They don't have to believe its true or even think it's likely. The fact that it's in a computer is basically irrelevant. If a man tells you that someone is tied up in the next room and that by pushing a button you'll electrocute them or whatever, then pushing the button is reckless. The fact that you have no proof that there's someone else in the other room is irrelevant.
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Good luck trying to argue that in court. It has to rise to the level of actual unlawful recklessness and negligence to be considered for manslaughter, not what you consider to be reckless and negligence.
Example, if you receive a phone call before you leave for work today saying that if you step outside your home, the caller will kill someone. You ignore it as a prank call and leaves for work anyway, next thing you know your neighbor's house blows up.
You realize that by your definition, you would be guilty of of killing your neighbor?