Twenty year old woman gets 15 months in Prison for encouraging boyfriend to kill himself

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Ka-pi96 said:

ArchangelMadzz said:

But if the messages are anything to go by it is reasonable to believe he wouldn't have killed himself if it wasn't for her. 

She continuously reminded him that he 'had' to do it, that he said he would and must do it. Even though he was 'stalling' in her words and had things coming up, his reluctancy was obvious. She continuously manipulated him using language commonly found in child groomers to get him to commit suicide. 

It's not like he said he wanted to do it and she said 'yeah sure go for it' that is no where near what happened here. 

It`s not exactly hard to ignore messages. Like when those Nigerian "princes" send out messages, most people don`t want to give away all of their money, so they don`t. So if somebody is sending you messages telling you to kill yourself it`s the exact same thing. If you don`t want to, you can just ignore them.

Actually, it can be really hard to ignore messages.  You just happened to pick out the shittiest example of persuasion possible.  But, in other situations, the messages can be much harder to ignore.  If you doubt that people can be persuaded by words, see the Milgram Experiments, Nazi Germany, the Bolshevik Revolution, religion, and so on.