#51 Mar 15, 2010 9:24 PM

Aceedwin

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Re: Is it so hard...

When my class was told that the student died, about half the teachers in my school who knew him personally had to leave.
The people who had bullied him to the point of suicide have been thinking what they had done and regret all the things they had said.
This whole incident was a huge slap in the face for everyone. Which was what we needed.

But believe, what you believe. You aren't at my colledge.

Oh, I wasn't denying your claims. I can imagine someone commiting suicide would have that effect. A, how shall I put it, acquaintance, got onto a roof only a little while ago. He got down later, and he was really only playing for attention, but it was a really big thing, the topic of conversation for weeks, even so. I can imagine the effect an actual suicide would have, even on the people not really involved.

But regardless, my post was more in reference to Swaffle's "society must witness tragedy to change its behaviour" hypothesis.

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