coming on thru Posted on : 19/02/2008 06:05:38

Caring for people

I recently asked a question on yahoo answers about people who use question answer sites to ask a question about whether or not that they should commit suicide. I realize that alot of them are not serious about it but what about those that are. I realize that each individual has rights and that they need to be protected. Am I to understand that we no longer are our brothers keeper? Peoples safety should always be more important than privacy even from themselves at the loss of their own privacy. What I'm saying is: if a person starts asking a question in a public place about whether they should commit suicide, they would be apprehended and taken for a examination but because of privacy laws as they are they not only are free to ask a question like that but also they become a example to those who would be like minded. Just recently a worse situation than that happened to me: I was answering questions on yahoo answers and I ran across a person asking a question that disturbed me alot; his question was this: I think that a person that I know is going to shoot up the school, what should I do? I tried to contact everyone that I could think of to come to investigate this situation, the local police -I was told that the police needed a court order to examine the records to locate who asked the question in order to find out if this was a real possibility of it happening, and that without probable cause they couldn't likely get one - this was the gist of our conversation. I called the F.B.I., THEY TOOK MY INFORMATION. yahoo did not have a policy to deal with this issue and I understand that many companies today do not. My point of writing this is that as the public answering questions on a question answer site ,when we run across a question like one of the two that I mentioned, since we don't know if we should take it serious or not, there should be some kind of protection by law so that they can intervene to save lives! theres too much violence and not enough solutions! thank you, comingonthru