More bad press for aspies

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Well just because they think they're doing good doesn't change the fact that they aren't, that there is no god, or that they're f****d up in the head, so that's irrelevant. I'm pretty sure Hitler thought he was doing the world a favor too, but that doesn't make what he did right, and it doesn't excuse what he did either.

So are you suggesting that as long as there's political agenda, it's okay??? Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what it sounds like, and I just can't agree with that.

I completely agree with this, but the problem is, the kind of things you want them to report aren't the things that will get them as many sales. The more outrageous crap they can print and report, the more interested people will be to find out what crazy s**t's going on this week. It also helps sales if they blow everything out of proportion too... That's why they do that BS. And what's sad about it is nobody ever bothers to use their brain and realize that it's a buncha crap.

This is exactly how I feel about it. In a lot of cases of people becoming offended, they become so because they're either just way too sensitive, or they're stupid and draw conclusions that aren't even there in the first place to make themselves offended. There has to be a line drawn somewhere, or like you said, we won't ever be able to say a damn thing because someone might become "offended." And the really stupid thing about the way the law works is that in cases where people got offended and/or felt "harassed," it doesn't matter if it was taken the wrong way because whether or not someone's at fault is determined by how the offendee took the comment, not what was actually meant by it from the offender... So yeah, it is leading to a really slippery slope. WHERE DOES IT END?

He was convicted under the Malicious Communications Act 1988.
That means this act has been part of the law in the UK for 23 years!

Nobody I know has even heard of this law before.
I'm glad the authorities only use it in rare cases such as this one.

Slippery slopes are logical fallacies. Jailing someone who repeatedly taunts the families of dead people is not the start of a slippery slope towards restrictions being placed on our ability to crticise government, for example.

Aren't you worried that perhaps the general public will begin to associate AS with the more undesirable elements in our society? Perhaps you are not aware of the recent quantity of stories of a similar vein where it has been reported that the perpetrator has AS. Bear in mind that in reading these press reports this can often be the first or only information a person has regarding aspergers.



I don't know quite why you use the word "we". I for one think it the heights of silliness to claim any famous people who have died had AS; idle speculation that doesn't really achieve anything.

I can accept that aspies will do bad things but I am annoyed when it is brought up in court by lawyers when it has no bearing on the case at all in the vague hope that it will garner some sympathy.

Are not most laws subjective? For example, homosexuality was (and still is) illegal in many parts of the world. Most laws (though not always) reflect the prevailing attitudes of society. There are only a few crimes, such a physical assaults (other than the severity I suppose), which are not subjective.

Without even reading any other replies here I can tell this is the kind of thread that might degenerate very quickly into nonproductive angry tit-for-tats. Not that most of you replying would do so, but it only takes a couple who can't let it go. So, here's my one thought.

I've just got one question.

What the hell kind of positive outcome does the judge think a jail sentence will cause in this case? This kid obviously has issues with death. Explain to me how jail is going to correct it.

Autism shouldn't be used as an excuse, but it most certainly could explain his inability to understand how what he was doing was affecting other people.

Comedians pull this kind of humor all the time on national and international television. Something tells me he's seen this. If he has, and has also seen that not only do none of these comedians get sent to jail for their crassness, isn't it possible that society itself has taught him that this is okay?

C'mon people! We should ALL know that figuring out the "rules" is one of the hardest things for us to do.

Jail isn't the answer. The kid needs counseling.

I know a lot of people who spent time in jails and prisons. Not a single one of them learned empathy in any of them.

Is jail out of the question for ALL aspie crime?

Aint it a bit like being sent to your room, or grounded for a week?

Making an example of Sean Duffy is fine by me. I find too many aggressive young males hiding behind the keyboard.

When I used to rehome and retrain bad dogs, chaining them to the kennel was a punishment reserved for fighting and anti social behaviour.

After being ignored for 12 hours and a night in the hole they were more willing to conform to the ground rules

Yeah, that's why I said it was their own "twisted" way.

It covers phone stalking and sending endless messages that way too, threatening letters (poison pen) as well as plastering malicious posters around the town of people.

I am sure you have heard of it, and I glad the courts are smacking down these people who think they can hide behind the internet and get away with whatever they want.

I have been an internet moderator for longer than most people have been able to reach a keyboard and in that time I have seen an incredible amount of crap, it is about time the law started taking this seriously.

So basicly you're saying that freedom of speech is the freedom to be as big a jerk as possible, and not the freedom to express your belief or oppinions openly? What a great world I live in then? No wander I think abusers get loved.

Just maybe Sean Duffy has suffered at the hands of NT's for years and with the useless mental health system for Aspies in this once great country all that anger has to go somewhere. If you put pressure on something for so long, it ends up breaking. Thats what is happening to many aspies. Lets face it, for REAL aspies is hard.

He was mocking the dead although aspies get mocked every day of the friggin year.

So its just like a clever bully tormentor, being discrete and not getting caught.... and the dumb angry hurt aspie lashing out publicly and being blamed? Hmmm

I suppose if your needing to express anger for years of received torment, mocking the deaths of dumb NT's who made fatal errors of judgement, may not be the best way to go about it.

He should protest outside a Gubbermint autism agency, not hurt grieving relatives.... and make other aspies look bad.

This. Exactly

Actually it was The Communications Act 2003, and under section 127 of the act it is an offence to send messages that are "grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character". The offence occurs whether those targeted actually receive the message or not.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/21/section/127

I had.


And as parts of this thread look uncomfortably like a lynch mob gathering up the rope, I'm out.
I wonder if it's occurred to some of you how it would look if you actually said to Sean Duffy the things you've posted here?
Think about that one, because you've quite likely been on the receiving end of something similar.