There were a ton of news stations here today, including CBS and MTV. I saw the commercial on MTV, with "Perez Hilton" talking about how this was hate against homosexuals and led to his suicide.
Excuse me? There's much more to this story. Now the media is involved, and you know that everything is going to get only more distorted and spun in a different direction.
Cue new MTV special on bullying/homosexuality/other-high-ratings-opportunity. (Anyone remember the "sexting" special last year? Yeah, those girls went to high school with 3 of my roommates. About 15% of what aired was factual. TV left a ton of details out in order to make their special work. The media are wolves that look for opportunity. Here we go again.)
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Originally Posted by Frosty
I hope these kids have their ****ing lives ruined. I hope they get to see what's it's like to not have any privacy in jail.
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I hope they tie their action to his death in a legal manner.
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I still hope the other two get punished as bad as they possibly can be.
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Frosty, normally I agree with you, but I can't believe people actually think this irrationally. There's a difference here, the kid willingly destroyed his own life, and ruined that of his families. He DID that. Now, if
anyone thinks this video stream was the reason he killed himself, I'm sorry, but that person needs to take their sunglasses off. This kid's life sucked as a whole; he didn't have friends, he wasn't enjoying life, and I can guarantee you he had a laundry list of issues. *His life wasn't pleasant up until this happened. He didn't say, "Well, life was good, but now that 3-58 people in Davidson Hall know I bat for the other team, it's definitely better for me to be dead than alive."* F***. You. Transfer dorms, transfer schools, get counseling, talk to your Resident Adviser who lives ON-YOUR-FLOOR, you are in a position where you, literally, have hundreds of options. Did the other kid who was on video (his "guest-for-the-evening") off himself? no...? hmm... odd. The guest must be crazy I guess.
To WANT to have someone ruin SOMEONE ELSE'S lives is ridiculous. That is, to ruin these two kids' lives is ridiculous. Forever, they'll have this on their consciences--You don't forget people around you who die, especially not ones who you may have been their last contact before they died. One person's life is already f'ed, his family's is affected forever, these two kids' are affected forever--their education and reputations are blemished, that's putting it lightly. Why try to find fine print in the laws to f*** their lives up more? I'm not defending their actions, rather, I'm defending their futures. At this point, don't you think community service and letting them act on their own recognizance would be more rational and meaningful than just throwing them in a slammer & hitting them with hundreds of fines & penalties?
Their actions were likely meant to ruin someone's night/week/semester. You're talking about *consciously and directly* ruining two people's *lives* -- In this case, they're not asking to be pushed off a bridge, but you've got your hands on their backs and are trying to thrust them off.
My 2-cents.