There is a difference between speech which is offensive (which should be free), and speech which is harmful (which should not).

You can reasonably respond to "He made fun of my religion" with "Ignore him".

You cannot do the same with a prolonged campaign of bullying. The human psyche is not able to deal with that without some form of emotional damage, especially not at that age (although some figure out how to protect themselves with "safer" forms of emotional damage). Real harm can be done, and this should not be permitted.

I would say that those terms are somewhat reasonable, assuming the intent was to cause suicide, and keeping in mind we shouldn't be talking prison given the age of the offender. If death was not the intent, then the analogy is more toward manslaughter vs. something which is probably not a criminal offense (some form of negligence?).

I agree that 5 years would be too severe for bullying causing death but without intent.

It seems to me that your posts make two separate arguments. To paraphrase the first, 'Nerds don't get laid', which implies a reproductive disadvantage to intelligence. No such disadvantage exists, however. "Nerds" don't get laid primarily due to deficits in confidence and other social skills, which is much closer to an orthogonal skill set to the abilities mentioned up-thread (autism excepted).

However, it is true that intellectuals tend to choose fewer children, which brings us to your second argument, which I will paraphrase 'Stupid people breed like rabbits'. Not quite. I don't believe there has been any definite correlation shown between reproductive rates and intelligence. What has been shown is a link between reproduction and education. The solution to "welfare moms" is education, and always has been. The Marching Morons scenario is only a valid concern if you presume the overwhelming majority of "welfare moms" (i.e. the poor and uneducated) are lacking in intelligence, rather than education. Which you may well do, but I do not.

I'd guess you are pro-intellectual, but not necessarily pro-intellectualism.
Also way more cynical than me. Actually, I would have thought plenty cynical enough to be unconcerned with a problem that, should it arise, would take place well and truly after we are likely to have annihilated ourselves. :P

Modern "society" does not increase the odds of condition 1. Modern medicine, technology and government do. Get rid of all the "nerds" and see what happens to those.

Also, anti-intellectualism is so last decade. Didn't you get the Hope-and-Change memo? ;P

From the press release mentioned by an earlier poster:

"The benefits of V2G for the grid are compelling, but drivers get something too. PJM pays millions of dollars to generating stations for their help in balancing the grid. Once vehicles assume that role on a significant scale, their drivers will get paid too. That is why FERC Commissioner Jon Wellinghoff likes to call the cars CashBack Vehicles - plug them in and get cash back."