Talk:Threat

Semantics

Learned something odd. For a threat to be such, it may have to be immediate and specific. A statement like "I'm outside the door and you're gunna die" for example might not be a legal threat as it technically consists on its face of two true statements: a route to or from someplace, even an unknown location, may well include passing through a door at some point, and a party thus addressed will, like every other human, eventually die. OTOH, a message like "I'm coming to your house and I'm gunna kill you" meets both conditions. knoodelhed (talk) 06:01, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Websters defines a threat as communicated or expressed. If I barged into to your apartment and shot you without prior warning, it would not be a "threat". If I said before hand that I was going to kill you sometime in the future, it would not be immediate or specific. --71.10.146.139 (talk) 01:56, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

this stuff aint true any body can post some stuff on this web page so it would be better if someone would put true stuff on these web page because i need some information about a lot of stuff and every thing on the internet isnt true —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.250.84.172 (talk) 21:38, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Well, I recently got into a fight yesterday and got suspended. I didn't touch this kid at all, he's 15 i'm 18. He bullies my little brother (typical bully i guess, always has friends around to jump if he's losing.) but today i received a text stating "Show up at madison at 4 or your little brother will be dealt with." I really can't do anything cause I will be charged with "assaulting a minor." My question is, what can happen to the party that "threatened" me and my little brother with this text? Is it an arguable case in court? Cause i'm the only one with minor damage done to my head(he dug his nails into my skin and punched me in the eye.) But i can't hit him because he is a minor. Please help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.88.158.138 (talk) 21:22, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Crisis

Seeger has defined what is a crisis and has added as descriptor that in a crisis goals should be threatened of either an individual or organization. So I'd say organizations could also be threatened and not just only people. Don't know enough on this subject as I'm now studying dioxin crises, so perhaps somebody else could pick it up and better define what a threat is. See for Seeger: Seeger, S. &. U., 1998. Communication, organization, and crisis. Communication Yearbook, Volume 21, p. 231–275 written by:ansjovis86 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ansjovis86 (talk • contribs) 14:58, 30 April 2014 (UTC)