Morally I have no issue whatso ever with the death threat.
On a pragmatic basis? For a threat to deter behavior the other party must believe you have the will and ability to act upon it. If they call your bluff and you can’t/won’t do anything about it all you’ve done is make yourself look weak. They both know Charlotte doesn’t have it in her to kill him; and that death threat didn’t deter her in the least. Bojack is also too impulsive and hedonistic to act rationally even if she was willing to send him to the glue factory. I’d say she’d need to break his leg at a minimum to actually scare him off.
So if you understandably want Bojack to stay the fuck away from your daughter but you don’t want to go jail and you want to keep it off record what are your best options?
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I don’t think the death threat was effective in the sense that it was about death or murder. I think it was an effective verbal slam of the door that was their prior friendship, and his link to their family. Another way to say, “I will never forgive you; I will never be okay with you even entertaining the idea of coming close to me or my family again; and lastly, you’re a piece of shit.”
Unfortunately, that wasn’t enough to keep BoJack away from Penny while he was on his bender with Sarah Lynn.
I don’t know if there would have been any other effective course of action minus telling reporters; but that would have undoubtedly hurt Penny worse than she was already hurt.
I don’t think it was necessarily meant literally, or meant to be understood as such.
He’d probably be spooked by calling the cops since then there’d be a ton of publicity.
Oh I don’t know, OP. The way she said it, she absolutely would kill him.