If I am speaking aloud and say I wish someone would kill so and so. And another person does it. Am I on the hook for murder? How would I defend myself in court?

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• tourist@lemmy.world ⁨25⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  It really depends on your legal jurisdiction

  If you say it out loud and it’s recorded you might be able to claim it was a heated gamer moment or out of context or something and you didn’t mean it

  If you said it about some public figure, there are probably a bunch of people who said it before you.

  If you said it about your neighbour or that dickhead in your drone racing club, that might be hairy and you should probably go to a lawyer with that

  For the most part, legal systems are more concerned about the actual murderer and you probably don’t have to worry

  it’s considered good etiquette to not openly wish death on others out loud. Don’t make lists. Don’t make it a mantra.

  I’m not a lawyer, obviously, but I don’t think they’ll slap you with a murder charge in most circumstances.

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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨33⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  If you’re a king, you might get off with doing public penance:

  Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?

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• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨35⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Probably depends on how whether you were in a position where it could be expected that someone would actually do it. If you said it on stage in front of a large crowd, call your lawyer. If you said it in front of Jim and Bob and the target is a public figure rather than someone you personally know, no one cares unless the police are going full fascist … nevermind.

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• AyuTsukasa@lemmy.zip ⁨41⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Maybe if it was obviously in a fictional or humorous setting you could argue you weren’t inciting anything

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  • Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Like Minecraft!

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