I know I have this sick sense of “justice” – regardless, this just made me smile.
A South Korean man won his appeal against a one-year jail term for assisting in a suicide by throwing a lighter to his gasoline-soaked rival in love.
The Seoul appeal court reversed a lower court ruling, saying that the 30-year-old man had not believed the ex-lover of his girlfriend would actually set light to himself.
Last September, the former boyfriend had stopped the couple in their car after dousing himself in petrol, threatening to kill himself if she did not get out.
The defendant then threw him a lighter, saying: “Go ahead and kill yourself,” the news agency said.
from Reuters
I say good on ya mate! Am I evil?
Let me take it further. What I think is this: even if you knew the person was going to push though with it, I don’t think anyone should be responsible for a fucking idiot’s actions – especially if those actions are a direct nuisance to your life.
I’m all for taking responsibility for hurting people’s feelings and all that jazz, but there really should be a limit in how much “responsibility” you have over another person’s feelings – because sometimes they just bring it upon themselves, and it’s simply not fair to blame someone else for that kind of self-inflicted idiocy.
Anyone who doesn’t value their own life clearly does not deserve it in the first place… I’m just sayin’. In fact, I think we don’t have enough of these “natural allies of overpopulation.”