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    Default Seriously, put yourself into my situation and be of any use.

    It's pretty simple, a friend wants to commit suicide but wants to kill his farther first. I know why and I would have killed him allready. I am trying to talk him out out of everything he plans to do but he is really smart, much smarter than me and can counter anything I come up with. Should I warn his father who is a horrible person or should I just pretend I never knew. I'm not sure. I am pretty sure my friend is serious, and he is way too intelligent to make social-workers change his mind.

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    Default Re: Seriously, put yourself into my situation and be of any use.

    Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
    It's pretty simple, a friend wants to commit suicide but wants to kill his farther first. I know why and I would have killed him allready. I am trying to talk him out out of everything he plans to do but he is really smart, much smarter than me and can counter anything I come up with. Should I warn his father who is a horrible person or should I just pretend I never knew. I'm not sure. I am pretty sure my friend is serious, and he is way too intelligent to make social-workers change his mind.

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    What's more important to him, killing his father or killing himself? Whichever you think is more important to him, that's what you need to talk him out of, the other part would fall off on its own.

    If it's suicide, then I don't know, take him out to dinner or something, give him a chance to have some fun. That generally puts the suicide ideas on hold.

    If it's killing his father, then maybe you can stress that very few people are beyond redemption, no matter how bad they've been.

    This is just to buy you some time. In the meantime, you might wanna contact the authorities, this guy needs serious help.
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    Default Re: Seriously, put yourself into my situation and be of any use.

    You've just posted prior knowledge on a website. It's like sending nude photos to a girlfriend over the net. Consider what you wrote a postcard.

    So you have prior knowledge of an attempted murder/suicide and possibly will be the only one left standing between your friend and his father.

    Guess who is now an accessory to the issue and won't be able to plead mental illness unlike your friend.

    In other words you now either go to the authorities or hope he doesn't do it or that somehow this website doesn't get recorded by your local law enforcement. Because it isn't likely that a website that has games that have keywords like invasion, Middle East, crusades and Jihad would flag any law enforcement agencies spiders.
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    Default Re: Seriously, put yourself into my situation and be of any use.

    Yup. Flag it to the pigs and get some body armour.

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    Default Re: Seriously, put yourself into my situation and be of any use.

    Call the police and do nothing else, as you can't know how your "delay tactics" will influence a mentally unstable person.
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    Default Re: Seriously, put yourself into my situation and be of any use.

    To give a better advice people here will need more input information, like the reasons why your friend wants to do what he says he will.
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    Default Re: Seriously, put yourself into my situation and be of any use.

    As Papewaio said, if he actually did carry out the murder and named you in any way that you had prior knowledge and failed to notify authorities, you would be charged with an accessory to murder. At least in the US you would be. It probably works differently in the Netherlands. Either way, I would highly suggest you notify the authorities.
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    Default Re: Seriously, put yourself into my situation and be of any use.

    I can get away with all that, I want to help a friend I don't know how to. Signalling in authorities is not an option, it would do more harm than good, they are all hihi-schoolgirls without a clue, he learned how to play Chopin's entire collection when he was 8, there is nothing on offer
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