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Old Jan 07, 2013, 10:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Hatter08 View Post
Social Media has spread this idea that "I can say and do whatever I want and no one can do anything about it." It's just taking expressing oneself to the farthest level possible. I actually know people who justify their bad actions by saying things like "I'm gonna be me and I'm not gonna let even the government tell me who to be." It just seems to me that human beings were not even meant to be given free will since you give them even the smallest bit of freedom and they tend to blow it out of proportion. People need rules and in the world we live in, enforcing those rules is being met with severe resistance by the civilian population. I'm sorry if I'm getting off track here, I'm trying to explain it as well as I can but the topic of morality and justifying one's actions is a pretty big deal to me.
I agree with you on the whole "rules optional" attitude we seem to have anymore. Honestly don't get me started. It's one of my pet peeves. I'm not sure it started with social media, though. I don't know where it comes from.

I think this has less to do with rules than it has to do with basic humanity. You just don't do stuff like that to people. Not if you have any sense of empathy. My guess is there were a handful of sociopaths directly involved - and a bunch of other people who didn't like what was happening but for one reason or another didn't intervene. I hope witnesses come forward to say what they saw.
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