Okay, I think I get it. Driving people to suicide is okay, as long as they were probably (hopefully?) mentally unstable to begin with. As I understanding you correctly?
No where close. Driving people to suicide is definately not ok.
Bumping harassment to murder because someone happened to be mentally unstable because it ended tragically is not. While I accept the "Thin skull rule" because the result on an ordinary person could have resulted the same way... I do not accept this as one of those instances.
You can't teach "mental fortitude" and the sort of harassment involved in these bullying instances is far greater than simply "being mean." Neither will therapy or any other method of helping a person succeed because those things are aids, not water-tight cures
You can teach "Mental fortitude" whenever someone calls you a name and you don't cry... That is because you taught yourself better. As a society we believe in a certain level of self-control and mental fortitude and teach people it.
Setting out to ruin somebody's life is entirely different than casual rudeness
That isn't what the article was about. They weren't seeking out to ruin anyone's life and they weren't the ones who did the rape or took the picture OR uploaded it online.
there isn't an avenue for reasonable discussion
To what extent are people responsible for their own actions? To what extent is someone responsible for the result of their actions? What are reasonable punishments for this?
If you think that anybody can shrug this sort of thing off and that you even have the faintest idea of what she experienced
Ohh dear goodness no I fully expect her to be upset and unstable from such an event even if she was a ordinary healthy person.
They drove her to suicide
No, she commited suicide under her own free will and autonomy. There are many things she could have done.
If she didn't commit suicide what does that say about what happened to her? What does that say about commiting suicide? Suicide should NEVER be someone's option.
Rape is terrible and harassment is terrible and they deserve to be duely punished for it, yet, I do not accept revenge because it ended tragically.
As well you are making up information. Remember the article leaves out a LOT of information and it was likely that the kids who distributed the pictures knew nothing about the rape or if the picture was a rape.
Let's not displace the anger we feel at this thing on to each other
I am fine. I hear on the radio all the time of people who had their friends, family, pets killed and going "This is why we need the death penelty" and I am used to it. I understand retributive justice.
I cannot be mad at anyone here because I am just presenting my thoughts and feelings and they are presenting theirs.