[Foundation-l] School shooting threats

[Voice of All]

Close to my sentiments on this.


Delirium wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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