Comment by akoboldfrying
3 hours ago
I totally agree. People seem to be stuck on the notion that we must not punish thought crimes, and have elevated this above all other considerations, when really it's just one among several.
However, those other respondents to your post seem to be accurately describing the current legal situation. I asked Gemini, and apparently "conspiring" to commit an offense requires an agreement with another person in both my country and the US, where an "overt act" is also required (that may not be incriminating by itself). I find this alarming. The fact that someone's private diary entry describing in detail a plot to kill me does not amount by itself to anything is... incredible to me.
The thing is plotting a crime is not illegal. Authors do it all the time. Usually against fictional characters, but some authors use a real world backdrop. And look over on StackOverflow. You can get some really weird ones that only make sense when you look into the details. When they manage to show up in the hot question list those details are missing. "How to kill a cat" comes to mind. (Note that you won't find it anymore--the question is AFIAK still there, but the title has been edited several times. The cat in question is the Unix command, not the feline. What do you do when you inadvertently tell the system to display the contents of a large binary file?) And, AFIAK still there, "How to kill Indiana Jones". (There are always the ancient mechanisms that somehow still work perfectly, springs and all. How to make something that actually would work?) And one I've heard of but not seen: "How to kill my wife", from some game I didn't recognize.
I’m sure the average UNIX admin has a trove of misinterpretable web searches.
fork a child and kill it - Google Search google.com/search?clie...067j0203j0i20i263j0i22
kill child and fork parent - Google S... google.com/search?clie...o...1...5.0j0171j35i39j
kill parent with fork - Google Search google.com/search?clie.....1... ..0171|35139|33116
kill parent without killing child - Goo... google.com/search?clie...4589.0j32j1.0....1......
kill child without killing grandchild -... google.com/search?clie...5.0j37. ....о...1...5..0j3
kill all children - Google Search google.com/search?q=ki...&hl=en-bg&client=safari
kill child with fork - Google Search cooale.com/search2o=ki &hl=en-ha& client=safari