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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I'm surprised anyone who read the new yorker article is glad he was found guilty. [/b] This case is like Roshomon...

In my opinion, he was a jerk - but since when does that cause someone to go to jail?  Thinking back to freshman year, if my roommate had brought over a 30 year old (man or woman) she met on the internet (back when 30 seemed sooooo old) I'm sure we all would have been talking about it.  would I have spied - no - but I can see how someone who is a jerk would do so.  again, not saying what he did wasn't wrong - but illegal???[/quote]

I read it, closely, and I was affected enough to start a thread on here and discuss it with many people in real life.  And yet, weeks after reading the article, with the details now fuzzy in my mind, my gut reaction to this verdict was that it is just.  Heartbreaking all around, no question.  But I think it was the right result, considering everything.  It's shitty that this particular kid has to worry about deportation when a garden-variety U.S.-born asshole wouldn't, but if his consequences were worse than another kid's that's all the more reason he should have kept his nose clean.  At the end of the day I blame his family, as they are the ones who let him turn into an entitled brat who could live 4 feet away from someone for weeks and continually show utter disrespect for him as a human being.  I do think this will send an example and hopefully things like this will happen less often in the future.  (Because they do happen, every single day, even though most victims don't commit suicide so it doesn't make the news.)[/quote]

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