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Update: Unity office death threat was made by a Unity employee
(www.polygon.com)
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this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2023
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Honestly at this point I feel worse for the guy who made the threat than anyone else. Can you imagine what is like working with those sort of bosses with such exploitative tendencies and an utter disregard for an entire industry? They get to ruin countless lives but if anyone gets mad that's the unacceptable one who is punished.
I'm pretty sure killing is a worse way to ruin someone's life.
The number of people being ruined is pretty different though.
I get it, it's a callous attitude, but I'm wondering if going for civility above anything else is really working out. I'd love for such situations to be settled with a reasonable discussion, but do they ever?
Not sending death threats is the bar set for civility these days?
He didn't kill anyone.
Because a threat is not an attempt. Most likely they had absolutely no intention to carry through with it.
It's still bad but saying "I'm gonna kill you" is not the same as actually trying to kill you.
Obviously, but you don't ignore it either. You don't wait for a DUI to crash before doing something about the threat. Say you'd like to shoot the president and see if the secret service ignores you.
You said that he didn't kill anyone because he got caught first. Which implies that if he didn't get caught he would have actually killed someone.
They really aren't the same. It's a common fallacy on the Internet to lunge straight to the worst possible case and equate that to whatever it is you're arguing, but it really isn't the same. Sure, the secret service won't ignore you if you say you'd like to shoot the president. But will their reaction be the same as if you've smuggled a gun in to a press conference and are spotted actively moving to get near him? Obviously not, because what I said remains true. Simply saying "I'm gonna kill you" is not the same as actually trying to kill you.
Hold on, give him time to think of more strawmen.
Time is up!
Case closed.