I have serious worries about charging people of any age for a crime when the behavior in question was purely verbal. I'm all the more worried about it do the inherent randomness. It is very likely that near identical behavior has occurred at many schools and occurs daily. It just happens that in this case, the student killed herself. That leads to an extremely haphazard and random system of justice.
This in general smells like a classic example of society feeling that if punishes a specific example badly enough that it will somehow solve a deeper problem. That's not how it works.
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This in general smells like a classic example of society feeling that if punishes a specific example badly enough that it will somehow solve a deeper problem. That's not how it works.
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