Timeline for What to do about answers that advocate breaking the law
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| Sep 6, 2019 at 20:59 | comment | added | Iñaki Viggers | @StephanS In the example you outlined, the best approach is to post a comment or answer explaining why following the suggestion to kill can backfire or be detrimental from both legal and practical standpoints (keep in mind that Law.SE portrays itself as intended for educational purposes). Barely flagging or downvoting that suggestion fails to educate and address a thought which understandably may occur to people who go through such unfortunate situations. | |
| Sep 6, 2019 at 11:55 | comment | added | Tim Lymington | I think "viewpoints should be forbidden" solely on the basis that they advocate breaking the law. Civil disobedience is not always bad from a political standpoint, but a site dealing with law can no more be seen to countenance it than a lawyer can advise it. | |
| Sep 3, 2019 at 13:02 | comment | added | User37849012643 | and many other people might think the same (that the husband deserves to die for this type of action), but this is a feel-good answer, it isn't a legal answer, and I'm not sure it would qualify as an answer for this site. | |
| Sep 3, 2019 at 13:01 | comment | added | User37849012643 | For example, someone asked a question about the law surrounding divorce because their spouse cheated on them with their sister, and someone answered saying "you could go to divorce court, but that takes a lot of time and money, you could just kill your spouse, if I were you, then I would kill your spouse". Is that an answer? Well technical yes, that is an answer and it addresses the question telling the person asking the question that they could go to divorce but then it suggest an illegal action, should someone die because they sleep with their spouse's sister, well I bet the spouse thinks so | |
| Sep 3, 2019 at 12:56 | comment | added | User37849012643 | First I have to say thank you for your answer, sometimes meta-questions sit for a couple of days before they are answered. I'm actually ok with bad/incorrect answers but I worry about the health of the answers on the site when answers suggest breaking the law for some type of higher good. | |
| Sep 2, 2019 at 15:19 | history | answered | user6726 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |