Re: Times: Troubled boy 'snapped and beat his tormentor to death with pool cue'


"Bo Raxo" <CheneysHeartIs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> mary, phd. wrote:
> > <ScorpionKing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:d7khm15jletqe6fbkf4dgabh4ijubub1ll@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > On 2 Nov 2005 00:36:22 -0800, kuacou241@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > >
> > >>The Times
> > >>November 02, 2005
> > >>
> > >>Troubled boy 'snapped and beat his tormentor to death with pool cue'
> > >>
> > >>By Michael Horsnell
> > >>
> > >>Overweight, gawky teenager snapped and beat his tormentor to death
> > > with
> > >>a pool cue
> > >
> > > Jesus! The kid has to do time, but having been a seriously ugly kid,
> > > I really sympathize with him. Lord knows I wanted to crack many a
> > > skull open. I feel bad for this kid. At least with me they were
> > > afraid if I started getting angry and would shut the *** up.
> >
> > I, too, felt immense sympathy for him while reading this article. I can see
> > why he snapped. The kid needs help, and I hope he gets it. Putting him in
> > prison with hardened criminals is only going to make things worse for him.
> >
> > mary, phd.
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>
> Well I must be the only heartless *** here, but I have no sympathy
> for the kid. He portrays the murder victim as his tormentor, a
> terrible bully, but oh wait, the guy was also his best friend.
>
> And this tormentor, this person who was so cruel he drove poor fat boy
> to murder, was in fat boy's house, as a guest.
>
> Even better, was the "tormentor" humiliating the fat guy in front of a
> bunch of people? No. They were alone together, which according to fat
> boy is when they were best chums. No, but there was drinking.
>
> Finally, was fat boy a victim of physical violence? Not that I can
> see, it looks like yet another case where name-calling and verbal abuse
> are conflated with *actual* violence. "Tormenting" someone is not when
> you call a fat guy a fat guy. Tormenting is when you inflict, you
> know, *actual* pain, commit *actual* violence, like, oh, whacking
> someone with a pool cue.
>
> If fat boy hated this guy so much, why did he hang out with him?
>
> Puhleeze. Fat boy couldn't get laid. His popular friend was no doubt
> knee deep in hot cheerleader tang (or whatever the British equivalent
> is - maybe a girl who can take her teeth out?). They got drunk. Fat
> boy snapped all right, and beat the *** out of his friend.
>
> That's a real menace if I ever heard one: somebody who gets drunk and
> beats his friend to death. It's a textbook definition of someone who
> needs to do time: killed because he couldn't control his impulses,
> killed someone he liked, and that combination makes him a danger to the
> community.
>
> Lock him up for at least several years. By the time he gets out, I'm
> betting he'll have dropped a few pounds and learned to work out a
> little, and also learned to take some verbal abuse without going
> ape-***.

You sound rather defensive. I bet you want a world where you can verbally abuse
all you want and your victims just have to take it.


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