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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:46 pm
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:08 am
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:19 am
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:24 am
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:14 am
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:22 am
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:36 am
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:14 am
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:32 am
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:07 am
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:25 pm
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There are a lot of factors that are left out. How old was she? Did she have a boyfriend? ever? or girlfriend? Did she have friends? ever? Were people mean to her online, or were they always mean to her? There are too many variables to make a strong opinion one way or the other on something like suicide. The Catholic part of me thinks, well no matter what it was wrong. But the human part of me thinks it sounds like there were a lot of things that weren't mentioned. Cyber bullying alone can't cause someone to kill themselves. It was probably just the straw, some small thing, that broke the proverbial camels back, nothing but the trigger and yet it gets all the credit..
Sigma, if your issue is with cyber bullying getting attention in the media.. well welcome to shock journalism. Sex isn't the only thing that sells, disaster sells too. I was just talking with Olus about this today, we heard yet another story about a 40 year old woman having sex with a 16 year old boy. This is common now and getting a lot of press, it's the next "priest molesting children" story. It's "in" to report on women commiting statutory rape. What's really sad, to me, are stories like these desensitizing us to the wrongness of this kind of thing.
I agree with everything Olus said too. People will be 100 times more cruel to someone, 100 times more likely to find a weakness and exploit it if they have the comfort and security of anonymity. It's almost like a drug, releasing that rage on someone, makes them feel powerful when they're really just small.. petty people.
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:02 pm
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:05 pm
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