1265: The Numbers Game

[rodimusprime]

Originally Posted by IWriteThings

I'm not defending the guy who purposely left his web cam on, but I don't think that his roommates suicide should have any bearing on his punishment. The only crime he committed was invasion of privacy, etc. (not sure of the exact charge(s)). He could not have known his roommate would commit suicide, as that was ultimately his decision.

I thought he purposely did it and put it on the net? Isn't it like DUI is a slap on the hand but DUI and causing someone to swerve into a ditch is a bigger crime?

[IWriteThings]

Originally Posted by rodimusprime

I thought he purposely did it and put it on the net? Isn't it like DUI is a slap on the hand but DUI and causing someone to swerve into a ditch is a bigger crime?

I'm saying that whatever he did with the video/broadcast, he didn't kill his roommate. Yes, he should be punished for all applicable charges though.

[Blitzgal]

Originally Posted by Diglass

Why is that ok, when I can't just go rub on some Lesbian's tits or make out with any Lesbian I want like it's nothing?

This is not an equivalent example. The equivalent would be a lesbian grabbing YOU.

[Junkenstein]

Originally Posted by Blitzgal

This is not an equivalent example. The equivalent would be a lesbian grabbing YOU.

to re-enforce the example and give it power i'd rephrase it as a big manly lesbian that looks like John Goodman that fucks a guy with a strap on.

The grabbing thing could be still viewed as a good thing by most guys. (unless it's opne testie squeezing)

[lizsquiz]

Originally Posted by IWriteThings

I'm not defending the guy who purposely left his web cam on, but I don't think that his roommates suicide should have any bearing on his punishment. The only crime he committed was invasion of privacy, etc. (not sure of the exact charge(s)). He could not have known his roommate would commit suicide, as that was ultimately his decision.

It's the same argument as when kids kill themselves over cyber-bullying, like when that little girl hung herself because her neighbour's mom pretended to be a boy and then dumped her and called her fat.

They charged that mom with:
Should the Myspace Cyber-Bullying Mom Go to Jail for Megan Meiers Death? | Newsflavor

"three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information to inflict emotional distress and one count of criminal conspiracy. She was found guilty lesser charges of misdemeanors, and the jury was deadlocked on the fourth felony charge of criminal conspiracy."

Sure, nobody can be 100% SURE that what they do is going to provoke someone into committing suicide.

If we take the parallel with this case, seems like the roommate did obtain and broadcast information - unauthorized - to inflict emotional distress - regardless of whether that distress was linked to his flatmate being gay, he knew it would be humiliating to broadcast his flatmate banging someone even without the gay angle.

I really think the homosexual angle's been overplayed here. I can only imagine the kind of horror and such I would feel if when I was 18 my roommate filmed me banging someone and showed it to all my friends. That alone could push someone over the edge. The closeted angle just compounds what is already a fucked up situation.





Also re that kid's brain. Dude. That's fucked up. Isn't there a rule that says "when you finish an autopsy, all the bits have to be back inside the person before you sew them up and give them to your family"

not "hey, take your time, the ME can only get out to staten island every couple of weeks/months. If he doesn't get here in time for the family's funeral, just label the specimen for showing to other kids."

What would happen if the ME eventually came out to do the brain exam, and then discovered something, then would they have to exhume the body? Or retract the previous autopsy findings? Seems like you can't finish an autopsy with organs unexamined...

Finally I don't get the show title. Being that I am blonde.

[Medium Brumski]

Originally Posted by Junkenstein

to re-enforce the example and give it power i'd rephrase it as a big manly lesbian that looks like John Goodman that fucks a guy with a strap on.

The grabbing thing could be still viewed as a good thing by most guys. (unless it's opne testie squeezing)

Are you implying that no good-looking gay guy has ever hit on me, I take offense to that good sir.

Not exactly the same, but I remember the first time I met Punk'n, she called brumski, gave me a few seconds to call no brumski, but instead I stepped a little wider, looked her dead in the eye, and said "You got me." Ah, memories.

[Junkenstein]

Originally Posted by Medium Brumski

Are you implying that no good-looking gay guy has ever hit on me, I take offense to that good sir.

Not exactly the same, but I remember the first time I met Punk'n, she called brumski, gave me a few seconds to call no brumski, but instead I stepped a little wider, looked her dead in the eye, and said "You got me." Ah, memories.

Oh no. I just found the visual equivelant of an icky molestation by a lesbian would work better with that image. Lesbians are too lillified in the mind of straights because of ages of plastic porn.

[Lanfear]

Soooooo ...... should I feel guilty because I may or may not have been more touchy feely with gay guys myself

[Blitzgal]

Originally Posted by Junkenstein

to re-enforce the example and give it power i'd rephrase it as a big manly lesbian that looks like John Goodman that fucks a guy with a strap on.

True. I'm in Wisconsin, so outside of campus those are the only lesbians you see anyway.

[picard102]

Originally Posted by stulagu

That non existence is better to them then their potential future. That their future is so full of sadness and dispare that they feel it is better to end it now.

That's cowardly.