[Foundation-l] School shooting threats

[Delirium]

Nathan wrote:
> While vague threats to celebrities and "I'ma kill
> Joe, he's a dickwad" are often reverted and ignored as simple and unserious
> vandalism, school threats have a unique nature in public sentiment and
> require a unique position in policy.
I don't agree with this leap of logic. They only "require" a unique 
position in policy if your only consideration is public relations. If 
your consideration also includes morality, then they require quite the 
opposite---carefully considering the situation and making an informed 
judgment as to the pros and cons of various courses of action. A policy 
that requires all school threats to be reported would probably be the 
best policy for cover-your-ass PR in hindsight if anything happened, but 
it would certainly not be ethical to ruin children's lives over 
obviously not-credible threats.

-Mark