At 5/21/2012 1:57:37 PM, Danielle wrote:At 5/21/2012 1:42:38 PM, OMGJustinBieber wrote:
Do you want to see him locked away for years and have this one incident destroy his future? The intentions are crucial - if Ravi was this insanely anti-gay person who was hell-bent on humiliating his roommate then sure - give him a tougher sentence. That just isn't the picture of Ravi though, and you need to learn to distinguish between like a college prank and genuinely malicious behavior. We save the tough sentences for the latter.
You can make the argument that this one incident destroyed Tyler's future. The intentions were clear (as evidenced through the texts and e-mails that surfaced - which btw were tampered with and that is a felony). His intent was to violate Tyler's privacy and then humiliate him by publicly outing him on various social networking sites. When you post videos on the internet, they don't disappear. They could have been picked up by YouPorn for all you know. I would love to know how you would feel if someone video taped you jerking off in the shower and then posted it on the internet specifically for others to laugh at and make fun of. Your grandmother could come across it. Your potential employers could come across it. Even if Tyler hadn't died, the repercussions of Ravi's malicious actions would have caused him undue humiliation. I don't see why this should merely be considered a "college prank" when multiple serious laws were broken. Obviously he was "anti-gay hellbent on humiliating his roommate." If he weren't, this wouldn't have happened. And btw - people who have 3 beers and drive get tougher penalties than Ravi did. Tell me more about how we only penalize the tough crimes (as if this isn't tough). Please. Here's a perfect example of someone making a dumb argument just for the sake of arguing. You can't video tape people without their knowledge and consent and then post it on the internet. Period. The fact that it was an obvious hate crime with anti-gay bias on top of the fact that he obscured the investigation by tampering with evidence and lying to investigators further proves that he was perfectly smart enough to know that what he was doing was wrong.
But that's not what the jury charged him on. The Jury made it clear that they weren't charging him on his actions leading to the suicide.
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower