lawsuit question (NOT a threat)

[eiraena]

hey, this is just a question for you guys who run this thing (since it actually seems like you check it :D )

first of all, i think this is a really good forum, topic wise and such, and hopefully more than like eight people will join. BUT...how can you have rooms like this one 'lets run away together' and 'suicide plans' and not be putting yourself up to be sued into the ground, or worse, liability wise? i have no problem with any of this, i think there should be more sites where real isssues can be discussed, but usually all really upsetting stuff like running away or suicide is deleted. i was just curious as to how you all can do it.

eiraena

[Paprika]

Nah, I run this forum alone. All the money that it takes to run this place comes out of my pocket. Thank you for bringing this foward. All I really need to do is change the descriptions of the forums in question and make their intended purpose clear.

Thanks again for letting me know.


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Well, I've fixed our problems but I'll be thinking about applying a disclaimer to this forum soon. I have to say, you seem like a very intelligent person, detecting bad situations like the one you identified. How old are you? Personaly, I'm 14

[eiraena]

dear paprika,

ironically enough, i have been deemed my school's "underground crisis management' , as it is usually a very good distraction from my own problems. i have contacted lawyers and even represented kids during interviews (VERY stressful, dealing with arrogant cops, i might add), and done tons of troubled teens work and the lot, since most of my friends fall under that category. all of this has been on my own as well, no sappy teen-help-teen crap that is run by the american lit teachers :twisted: who have all the rules tofollow.

actually, i just graduated from highschool this year, and am 18, which is very usefull, because people have to take me seriously now and my parents cant just threaten me with all their usual crap anymore.

definitely put up the disclaimer, as it would help you alot if some yuppie with an eminem protege tries to dump their family issues onto your bank account.

you did an excellent job setting this up all on your own. i am sure that once it gets going the open atmosphere will offer a great escape for kids who cannot otherwise express themselves without fear of bad reactions.

oh, and one more additional comment to my relationship post i sent you earlier--if you are only 14, then a good excuse is to tell everyone you are on probation for statutory rape (underage sex), and cant have contact with minors in a personal-like setting for x# of months. that way you look cool for getting a piece of ass, but you've got a really good excuse not to try 'again'. :twisted: (i like the devil face)

eiraena

[Paprika]

awww, nah. That would make me look bad infornt of all those girls. To tell you the turth eveygirl that I like asks me out sooner or later but I aways say no because I have much more important things to be doing these days. Never even had a gf. Sometimes I wish they would leave me alone but I don't want them to think I'm crazy by telling them the five-o got me for statutory rape, but thanks for the help all the same.

[eiraena]

thats ok, i didnt think that was a real good one anyways, but it would work as a last option scenario. but if youve got all that scool time left, i wouldnt do it.

i have a lot of friends that live at this one particular group home in town, and the staff there absoulutely hate me because i gave copies of juvenile medical rights to all the girls and they started calling the staff on their 'medical decisions' that they really didnt have the right to make for the girls. any how, i had this one friend (bipolar, so not a good thing to give her anymore problems) who got pregnant, and the group home would have caused some major issues for her. somehow a rumor got started that she was pregnant, and then it got back to this other girl from the home that was a real bitch. so we told the entire school via the grape vine that it was me who was pregnant and that this girl had been covering for me by taking the slack while i figured out what i wanted to do. eventually she miscarried her baby, and everyone forgot about the whole thing. but a few months later, i broke up with this really psycho-stalker guy i had been dating, and he somehow decided, for completely neurotic reasons that even i cant fathom (and he really believed it, he wasnt just doing it to be mean) that i WAS pregnant, and told the entire school, and kept making totally imappropriate comments about it in public./ the people i actually care about listened to me, but the whole rumer followed me until i graduated a few months later, and i still get comments about it now during the summer. it really really pissed me off!

so i guess i just gave you a really long and extended reason why you should NOT listen to my last suggestion. :idea:

i am having a really bad night, and i think i am talking way too much and it is making me feel bad, so i think i'll shut up and go now. sorry about the impromptu parable there :evil:

eiraena

'when we are tired we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.'

[Paprika]

Wehn you said "eventually she miscarried her baby" do you mean that she done someting purposly to harm the unborn child?

[eiraena]

youre obviously online as much as i am cause you answer my posts usually half an hour after i put them up. except i think you must like computers to make a site like this, where as i have no life and like right now i am having a nervous breakdown and by being on line i am less likely to try to off myself. :cry:

anyhow, about the baby. this girl miscarried her baby because she was on geodone for the first month or so, in addition to being a really high risk pregnancy for other reasons. i am getting a pro-life impression here, which is fine because everyone has a right to their opinion, and i dont really care what people do with their own lpregnancies, as long as they have the babies best interests at heart, and i have never had to make the choice for myself, but if you ever decide you want to get into a debate about the whole thing, just check to make sure i am not really upset first, cause i dont want to offend anyone. (i have seen alot of Evil in my life and not enough good to counter it, and i have some wierd opinions about certain issues based on what i have seen. i have no faith in the 'system')

anyhow, i think i need to go now, just because i dont want to piss you off, and i'd rahter go try to knock myself unconscious or someting more useful than bitching about assumptions i have made about you on my own. :evil:

i am sorry if i have irritated you.

eiraena

[Paprika]

:?:

No, you have not irritated me in any way what so ever. Don't try to knock yourself unconscious or someting because thts not a very good thing todo. Expecialy because your brain actually is suffering during that period.

Yeah, no fith in the system here either. What they need to have in place is that one system they had back in england a long time ago...its called...err... well, basicly what I'm tring to say is that Judges and Cops should use their head and say fuck the books if someting a criminal has done thats obiviously not right and its not punishable when following laws. They should run my personal judgement - since certain judges may be bias each cort case would be tried by 3 judges each of differnt origin and background. With cops they should just use pure and honest judgement. If a guyt beats his wife but she pleads with them not to take the guy to jail - they sould. More on that later, when I figure out how to explain it correctly.

[eiraena]

dear paprika,

oh, good, i didnt piss you off. i am good at debate but sometimes it backfires. like in my Foriegn Policy class at school when i was arguing for the dont-invade-iraq side and i managed to convert three people from the otherside and lose one from mine just because i irritated him so much. :roll:

i didnt bang my head into the fridge after all, i went driving out in the middle of no where and had two panic attacks and came home and went to bed.

as to the english system, sounds good in theory, dantzijean says they used it in france too, BUT... looked what happened to england and france: in england people were religiously persecuted in a way that was endorsed by the law, until finally a bunch of people packed up and moved to another continent where they eventually did the same thing to everyone else (ie puritans). as for frqance, the entire country's judicial system was run by the church, and millions of the people were killed or starved because the church and thus the judicial system became corrupt.

now i definitely agree, fuck the books and go with judgement. but if only judges ran the system i think it would be worse because judges are trained to follow laws, but how to you 'train' people to be moral? and whose morals? and shouldnt we do that anyhow? i think that is what a jury should do, but it would have to be perfected yet. let me think about it for a while...

as for the abusive huband example, the wife should have no say because even if she leaves or forgives him, he wil;l just do it to someone else, or his kids or something.

i have my own system and the only people i have to answer to are god and myself, and i am very hard on myself so it works really good. if people dont want to be moral than i dont think any kind of judicial system will truly be effective.

i think that the world is heading up to a big disaster (my bet is biological, but this whole terrorism thing has made other scenarios more possible), and i am hoping that afterwards with less people and a harder life and more tradgedy, people will realize that they need to watch out for more than just #1.

so that is my judicial theory. when i perfect my system i will let you know. 8)

eiraena

ps you figure out how to explain the english system and if i think i can make it fail proof i will try to incoporate the elements inot my judicial plan