Cookie Thread Act 9: i like origami

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#21976

Latest TBHK arc is so good, chat.

#21977

ā€¦tbhk?

#21978

Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun.
Ongoing manga about supernatural beings that reside within a school. Itā€™s very, very good.

#21979

ā€¦what a choice name

#21980

Itā€™s based on a Japanese horror story.

#21981

zone told me about it a bit ago
i just didnā€™t mentally write down the acronym

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#21982

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#21983

just saw an interesting question

#21984

If you push someone down a bottomless pit is it murder or just assault?

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#21985

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#21986

Attempted murder at the very least.
If they canā€™t save the guy, heā€™s gonna die from hunger or thirst after a few days, so thatā€™s just murder.

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#21987

i think if the assailant has good reason to believe the victim isnā€™t coming out of the situation alive it can be considered murder

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#21988

Assault and kidnapping if theyā€™re somehow retrieved, likely attempted murder depending on what a reasonable person would believe is the likelihood of that action causing death. If theyā€™re dead (presumed or verified), murder for sure, and the degree would depend on what the prosecution believes they can prove regarding the intent behind the act.

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#21989

Acting with a callous or reckless disregard of the potential harm is the mens rea of 3rd degree murder I believe. The prosecution would likely argue that no reasonable person would shove someone into a bottomless pit without thinking there was at least the possibility of death or great bodily harm, and the defense would have to convince the jury client believed it would somehow be of much less minimal harm (which seems like an extremely difficult thing to prove in court when dealing with a bottomless pit and what people would likely think about such a thing).

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#21990

Now, we could save this person if we had a rocket that pointed downwards and a reallllly big rope

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#21991

Unfortunately, it only takes 18 minutes to reach the center of earth soā€¦if this pit was on earth, it would have to be a looping pit right?

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#21992

Depends on the circumstances and legal system you use

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#21993

Did the victim actually die? Did the accused know that the pit was in fact bottomless? Among other thingsā€¦

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#21994

you canā€™t charge them with murder until you are sure they are dead right?

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#21995

3rd degree murder was described to me by a lawyer as someone throwing a cinder block off a tall building into a crowded public square below. Thereā€™s not even a guarantee you hit someone, and it really doesnā€™t matter what the defendant believed regarding its lethality. Itā€™s just the sort of thing that requires a callous disregard for the harm such an act would cause.

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