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To: Mamzelle
Remember--this is a suicide. Not a murder. What you have here are people being accused of being mean teens. Any of you have any teens who were mean?

No, it's a mobbing, which is a coordinated, extensive and premeditated psychological attack to cause harm to someone. Driving them to suicide is called "intentional harm" - and that turns the suicide into homicide.

Any of you have teens who coordinated vicious psychological mobbing attacks over a period of months with intent to destroy - and then write gleeful facebook posts celebrating the death? Is THAT what you mean by "teens who are mean"?

30 posted on 04/11/2010 11:01:49 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: Talisker

>>Remember—this is a suicide. Not a murder. What you have here are people being accused of being mean teens. Any of you have any teens who were mean?
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>No, it’s a mobbing,

Six people is a mob? I think it would be more of a clique.

>which is a coordinated, extensive and premeditated psychological attack to cause harm to someone.

How is this different from how the “Jocks treat the nerds” or any of that sort of high-school social dynamic?

>Driving them to suicide is called “intentional harm” - and that turns the suicide into homicide.

And if I make a no-bones, open, declaration that I think you’re a dumb-ass [and don’t like you], and you go and kill yourself how does that make me culpable? The other option, that I think you’re a dumb-ass [and don’t like you], yet keep everything hidden [to the point of pretending that you’re ‘a-ok’] seems a bit dishonest...

>Any of you have teens who coordinated vicious psychological mobbing attacks over a period of months with intent to destroy - and then write gleeful facebook posts celebrating the death?

Certainly it’s insensitive and unsympathetic, but how is it *criminal* to be glad that someone you despise is dead? [John Murtha, anyone?] If, say, Nancy Pelosi were to die and you saw a facebook post saying that was a good thing; would you support an investigation into that person based solely on that comment?

>Is THAT what you mean by “teens who are mean”?

I’m not sure what the previous poster meant by it.


78 posted on 04/18/2010 8:11:24 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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