Amanda Todd Suicide

Assuming that those are also suicidal people through bullying, we don't have to lay awake at night thinking about all the terrible things that happen around the globe, but when you read a story like this, I feel it's important to at least have a shred of empathy and humanity to feel sad that something as tragic as this had happened. So that does not mean we've to remember them forever, if they weren't connected through us in any other way then a television broadcast or an internet article. I think it's a problem though if you're really desensitized through these stories and fail to recognize the actual problems who are still out there. I'm not saying we should all start an anti-bullying organisation, but next time you see something similar to this, step up and at least give it a damn try. I won't respond to a few of you, because I think your views of this are very presumptious and your judgements are thus pathetic, to say the least.

Yeah no. I've read other stories where the bullying victims did nothing wrong except to exist (In the bully's eyes) and they got far less coverage and certainly did not have pictures of their early years being put up either. On top of that, the fact that what this girl actually did prior to the stalking and the beating up is hardly mentioned at all in the original article which shows a very marked bias in comparison to the other articles I've read that focused less on the "Oh she's pretty pictures" (Because they were just normal-looking or nerdy amirite) and the circumstances that led to her suicide.

I don't like this article and I don't feel all that bad for this girl precisely because this is the exact kind of slant that implies to present and future bullying victims that no one cares very much unless they're dead and pretty, and that apparently being pretty gets you sympathy if you die even if what you did is a thousand times more idiotic than being born with a certain trait that makes bigots hate you.