If we're not supposed to condemn the jerks that made the anti-islam movie

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88. It appears that you misunderstand the legal concept of incitement

If the filmmakers had made a film that urged people to go out and riot and kill -- that might be incitement. But if all they did is make a film that someone else took and pointed to and urged people to go out and riot and kill-- that person, not the filmmaker is the one inciting violence. Maybe it will turn out that the people behind the film and those that urged rioting are one and the same. But absent evidence of that, inciting some one to engage in incitement has never to my knowledge been deemed the basis of any sort of legal action.

Put another way, in a wrongful death suit, the plaintiff will have to establish the proximate cause of the death. First and foremost, the proximate cause would be the actions of the those actually committing the act. Potentially, someone egging them on to commit the act might be held partially responsible. But if the filmmaker is not related to those people (and at this point they may turn out to be, we just don't know), then its too far a reach to hold the filmmaker's actions to be a proximate cause of the death.