The_root_of_all_evil said:
But who decides where that line starts/stops? Just the amount of time it's happenend? Does that mean I can troll you for an hour a day?
No, I was more going for the fact that the incident in question was aimed at a specific family (that makes very much a directed personal attack, you are directing what you're doing at them explicitly) compared to much wider statements which can more easily be shrugged off (I'm sure more people would be offended if you got pictures of someone having sex with one of their deceased loved ones and posted it to them than if you made 9/11 jokes related to the phrase 'towering inferno' on a forum or message board).
Honestly I'm not in the habit of finding cases of people mocking others. I'm sure that you could pick any YouTube video of the death of someone and find mockers though.
In other words your attempt at making a point against me backfired and now you're trying the 'but everyone does it!' defense which, by the way, doesn't really excuse
anything, loads of people murder, steal and rape every day and I don't see any of us lining up to defend those crimes with that arguement (try pulling that excuse out the next time you're in trouble for anything, I guarentee you that the response you'll get from most people will be 'and I don't give a damn').
In fact, I'd challenge you to find any YouTube about a death that doesn't have some douche-nozzle mocking it - repeatedly.
As a general rule I tend not to look at the comments on Youtube that much (I tend to only be there for videos) and I know I'm not alone in that either.
From what I'm given to understand of the situation this wasn't just a guy making an inappropriate statement about the incident, he went to the tribute page for the grieving family and friends and proceeded to troll them over what is obviously going to be an extremely distressing subject.
This isn't some obscure easy to overlook piece of the general unpleasantness we expect of the internet (especially of Youtube comments sections) this was an active attempt to try and get at the family in question.
That doesn't make it a jailable offence. It just makes them a horrible human being. Which jail is only going to exaggerate.
What that person needs is help. And an unemployed Aspergers sufferer already needed that.
I'm an unemployed Asperger's sufferer and I don't sink to that level, clearly something else was at play here (ergo, the guy was an arse).
If following a family in grieving in order to have some fun at their expense isn't a serious offense to you then I'd hate to know what you consider to be going over the limit.
And like others have said, if mocking people repeatedly is a jailable offence, then Westboro Church, Glenn Beck and even Yahtzee would have been jailed a LONG time ago.
Yahtzee gets protection from this because his mocking tends to be light hearted satire and also tends to not target individuals (with the exception of those who have made public statements he disagrees with, in which case that more comes under expressing his disagreement than any actual cruelty), the WBC is openly reviled by a lot of people for their homophobic views but unfortuneately the fact that their belief stems from religious conviction means that it's harder for us to take action against such infringements (rest assured this would result in lots of people criticising such a thing as 'trying to opress their beliefs') and with Glenn Beck...I don't really know much about him or care who he is so I can't really comment on him.
In any case I'm going to guess that most of these people tend to be expressing disagreement with people and thus their mocking/trolling tends to be in expressing their views (the case that was stated in the beginning was seemingly just a case of cruelty for cruelty's sake).
) is a douche-nozzle as well. He didn't even turn up to Parliament to vote on a Data Legislation that I asked him to.
