Re:It's as simple as this (Score 1)

Oh, for the sake of whatever you consider holy. For the sake of sanity, and reasonable discussion (Yes, I am aware this is slashdot. But miracles are possible, right?) I'm going to attept to portray this with only a small measure of the contempt this raises in me. First off, as a bit of background. I'm bipolar, have been for a long time. At the moment, having no health insurance, I'm really not treating it as well as I probably should. I also happen to live in a smallish town, so needless to say my neighbors are not what I'd call... nice. (I routinely get bibles chucked at me, for example.) Also, I've known a lot of very troubled teen girls in my life. (Even had the idiot idea to get involved with a few.) So I at least have some vague idea of the mindset. Now, all that being said, along with me being a gamer, should well make me a dead ringer for a school shooter, no? Considering I'm writing this from home, I highly doubt I've gone out and shot anyone. (And however heartless this may sound, the schools nearest me... well, if any school deserves to be shot up, it's those.) Any person, no matter how badly messed up in the head you are, or what kind of emotional problems you have, have choices. And those choices are yours alone. To say this (admittedly heartless bitch.) is responsible for her suicide, at least in a legal (or moral, even) sense is completely insane. This completely and totally removes any form of responsibility from the girl. This isn't really belittling how heartless of a bitch the instigator was. But, come on, I've had some pretty harsh stuff happen to me. And people I've known have had some even worse stuff happen to them. The most outrageous example of this I have is when a friend of mine was assaulted, badly, and just left her there. I came across her skipping out early, and took her in to the nurse, and the principle, and no one would do anything, for her supposedly making it all up. (They happned to be star football players, which I think was the more pressing reason.). Of course, these were people I knew for a fact to be violent. If the law won't get involved in a horrible case like that, (And this was not an isolated incident.) but it will in the case of some suburban... girl, getting messed with emotionally, after her own suicide... Well, my faith in humanity wasn't doing well beforehand, but this is a grevious blow. (By the way, she happned to be rather poor, living in a bad apartment next to mine, and her family probably wasn't what I'd call healthy. She overdosed a week later.) In fact, I take exception to this even being labeled a "tragedy". It cheapens the term immesurably. What is happening in China, and Myanmar, that is a tragedy. Parts of the city I live near (In the midwest, but not what's normally considered a "major city") being a complete warzone. That, is a tragedy. Children in africa dying of preventable and treatable diseases, and starvation, that's a tragedy. Some suburban wimp that killed herself because she couldn't handle someone fucking with her? Please. In slashdot terms... fuck that. This does not even bear trying to translate into failspeak. She got messed with. Mean, but worse happens, routinely. She hung herself. Woo. Someone who, while a heartless bitch, but little other than that, gets charged with a crime because "OH NOES, A CHILD DIED". Fuck me. Children die every fucking day, for a massive amount of perfectly preventable reasons. This is not a tragedy. This is a wimpy girl, taking the easy way out. Nothing more, nothing less. Nothing to see here, move along.