2012-10-14, 04:25 PM
To people saying previous generations were bullied and still were able to get through life while current generations are stupid for not being able, I got 2 words: The internet. Even if stuff like social networks and chat apps already existed 10 years ago, its integration to society nor its relevance were as big as today. Media in general sets in people's minds standards or models to what society and its members should be like, then when someone derails from those models they get criticized. Now the internet amplifies that criticism by a thousand by making it able to reach much more people and get all kind of feedback without any regulation or repercussion. The interned is a two-edged sword for many things.
While I'm not gonna discuss wether she is guilty or not of commiting a mistake and/or paid the price for it, I consider the ultimate conclusion to this should be it is pretty sad she wasn't able to reach the right solutions in time. Everyone commits mistakes, but that doesn't mean we should put a label on those that did wrong and ditch them out of society forever. If they can prove they have learned from their mistakes and can move forward, their past shouldn't matter anymore, and I think that what was missing for this girl was someone to teach her that. I believe it is obvious from the fact her parents are divorced and that she barely mentioned him in her video that he was not there for her.
To finish, I believe it is stupid bullying has become such an issue that's pushing suicides all over the world. Goes to show what happens when society overlooks an issue thats obviously wrong. It grows and grows to the point it matters. It is time goverments start taking this problem into their hands.
First off, assumptions. We don't know how much of an attention whore she was prior to this nor how many mistakes she made, while hey! it is not hard to commit a mistake and then get labeled for it for all that period of life. I think many of us here know about that.
Second, the problem is she didn't get construcitive criticism, she was ridiculed and even beat for her mistakes. While (this is partially an assumption) having no one to help her deal with it. She was 15, prolly younger when it all started, I don't think she was mature enough to figure out the right conlusions on her own while having to deal with the pressure at the same time.
While I'm not gonna discuss wether she is guilty or not of commiting a mistake and/or paid the price for it, I consider the ultimate conclusion to this should be it is pretty sad she wasn't able to reach the right solutions in time. Everyone commits mistakes, but that doesn't mean we should put a label on those that did wrong and ditch them out of society forever. If they can prove they have learned from their mistakes and can move forward, their past shouldn't matter anymore, and I think that what was missing for this girl was someone to teach her that. I believe it is obvious from the fact her parents are divorced and that she barely mentioned him in her video that he was not there for her.
To finish, I believe it is stupid bullying has become such an issue that's pushing suicides all over the world. Goes to show what happens when society overlooks an issue thats obviously wrong. It grows and grows to the point it matters. It is time goverments start taking this problem into their hands.
Flonne Wrote:A person can make a mistake. However, if they make that same mistake a second time (or in her case, who knows how many dozens of times), they did not learn from it, and deserve no sympathy. Making mistakes is fine, because you will not do it again if you have any common sense; either you got constructive criticism on how to avoid it and recognize that it's much easier to do things a different way, or you were ridiculed and want to avoid the embarrassment. However, she seemed to be too much of an attention whore to let a little thing like common sense get in her way. Things escalated far beyond her ability to control, and she killed herself because of it.
First off, assumptions. We don't know how much of an attention whore she was prior to this nor how many mistakes she made, while hey! it is not hard to commit a mistake and then get labeled for it for all that period of life. I think many of us here know about that.
Second, the problem is she didn't get construcitive criticism, she was ridiculed and even beat for her mistakes. While (this is partially an assumption) having no one to help her deal with it. She was 15, prolly younger when it all started, I don't think she was mature enough to figure out the right conlusions on her own while having to deal with the pressure at the same time.