Should Myspace Prankster Get Punished?

[Wicked Felina]

Originally Posted by Pandamonium

She was 13. The concept of time and consequence is not developed.

This is the difference between an adult and a child.

Who of you think this woman was a "prankster"? I thought being a prankster meant short-sheeting a bed, or loosening the cap on a salt shaker - not intentionally & willfully causing another harm, especially a child. Causing harm was clearly that woman's intention.

There was a case some years ago where teen "pranksters" dug up a stop sign at a country intersection. Along comes two cars, one fails to stop and gets t-boned. Two people die. Should those "pranksters" be held responsible for causing the crash and deaths of two people? Their intention was not that anyone die.

I think there are similarities to this case. And this case is far worse given that an adult intended to cause harm to a child. So the girl in this case was not well mentally. Therefore, it somehow diminishes the stupid adult's responsibility? I don't understand that.

And as a matter of fact, words alone can cause harm. Isn't it the same thing as psychological warfare...detect a frailty (which this 'woman' knew) and conduct a course of action that alters that frailty. In this child's case, that calculated action was a factor in causing her death.

I'm glad that individual was prosecuted. She bears a great responsibility in the child's death, imo.

[Pandamonium]

This is not a prank, this is what I like to call TWIT ACTION. This occurs when people decide to teach someone else a lesson. This occurs when 3 or 4 women decide to sit down and make someone else's life a living hell. This occurs when 8 cheerleaders beat the hell out of a girl and the mother of a beater says, "She deserved it." It is the person in the office who starts to slander another.

It was ok on this level, and ok on this level and OMG, we have hit rock bottom.

[Arizona1]

Originally Posted by Pandamonium

This is not a prank, this is what I like to call TWIT ACTION. This occurs when people decide to teach someone else a lesson. This occurs when 3 or 4 women decide to sit down and make someone else's life a living hell. This occurs when 8 cheerleaders beat the hell out of a girl and the mother of a beater says, "She deserved it." It is the person in the office who starts to slander another.


It was ok on this level, and ok on this level and OMG, we have hit rock bottom.

And this basically sums up the way our modern day society functions. Nieghboriness is a fascinating social aspect of past history and no one gives a rat's *ss about anyone else. Competition is fierce and anything can be done and justified to narrow the field.

[jtur88]

Every single one of us, probably many times, has done something in perfect (or imperfect) innocence, for which we could have been prosecuted for a felony if a mentally deranged person took it the wrong way. Be careful what you wish for---it's a lottery out there.