11 year old attempts suicide after bullying over my little pony :-(

[DrahogErusiel]

 
http://gawker.com/eleven-year-old-attempts-suicide-after-bullying-over-my-1515455915
 

[Lucky Cris]

Poor baby. My heart goes out to him and his family - I hope he fully recovers.

Sad thing is, I feel terrible for the bullies too. When they get older and realize the role they played, the guilt will either haunt them relentlessly, or they'll forever carry hatred in their hearts. Either way, it's going to weigh heavy on their souls unless they can forgive themselves.

[Mr. Socko]

Sad, but not surprising if he dances all around like is stated. Like it or not humans are still very intolerant of those who are different, and to fit inside the box, behaviors that don't stray too far from the norm are required.... that, or the ability to kick some ass.

[RebelWorm]

I fucking hate people. This makes me sick. My younger brother were bullied when we were younger and he was so fucking scared that he refused to go to school. He had to change school to get away from it. This is really disgusting.

[bryant.coleman]

My Little Pony is marketed primarily to the girls. How this guy got addicted to it?

[Lethn]

This, this is precisely what causes mass shootings at schools and yes I went there so try not to turn the thread into a flamewar over my comment, while I haven't had to deal with shit like that I can totally understand it and I'm sure anyone else who's had to deal with scumbags at school know what it's like having to deal with that crap on a daily basis.

p.s. 'Bullying' is just a sugar coated word for harassment and assault that adults use to try and trivialise a crime people would otherwise go to jail for if they weren't so young

Seriously though who the fuck targets someone over a fucking cartoon?

[Mr. Socko]

Yes but pack mentality is a very old biologically driven behavior. Everyone thinks babies are born 'innocent' and children are 'innocent' but the truth is they are born with certain genetic traits in place that helped with their survival and the weeding out of the 'weak' as well as fearing anything that is 'different' are a couple of those traits.

Kind of like how people think of a forest as so 'peaceful' but really look around and you'll see plants are competing with each other for sunlight and water everywhere. It's a doge eat doge world out there, if you pardon my pun. As humans we have the ability to rise above these primitive instincts but they are there nonetheless.

A lot of people see this and blame society or see it as a sign that humanity is 'descending into chaos' when in reality we've never been more peaceful and tolerant. We've always been fairly primitive. People just see what they want to see.

[EvilPanda]

Seriously though who the fuck targets someone over a fucking cartoon?

Other children. Kids are nowadays left to themselves as parents chase the money and nobody teaches them law or morality. He sees his father beating mother and getting away with it, so why not beat some kid at school?

[frankenmint]

so...what do we say about the other 11 year old bronies who DIDNT attempt suicide.  Do we nudge them towards the whole, you make choices and they are yours to make wholeheartedly, but you do realize it will come at a price?  The same goes to the pack-kids who sat there and did nothing because they wanted to fit in or the bully kid who has his/her own problems to deal with outside of school or at home who feels pressured to escape by emulating what happens to them but on someone else weaker (I don't condone what happened there...but its sort of a mixed bag of thoughts depending on your POV)  I personally think that the kid must understand that the choices he made had those consequences, just like my choices to eat pizza, cheese and other junk food made me live through the consequences of being bullied about my weight as a kid.  

I think the comment on gawker about how a woman related to this story put a major spin on it to her own benefit really drives home that this whole "bullying" thing benefits therapists, psychologists, writers, television and documentary program directors for new material which can be Sold for...money. Heck...Gawker is benefitting, they are getting advertising revenue from the increase in pageviews for this content.  So is call to awareness really just another cheap ploy that in no way benefits the bullies or bullied?   I don't know about you...but my favorite part of "Chistmas Story"  is Ralphie beating up Scutz Farkus.

Pwned!

[RGBKey]

It's sad, but the sometimes you just gotta roll with it and tell someone about it instead of doing drastic things like this. But he was 11. I don't think I even understood suicide when I was 11.

[Mr. Socko]

As a dad I would encourage the kid to stick up for himself if he seemed kind of timid, or at least trying to laugh it off and make friends of his/her own. Telling them to do this and having it done are different things though, especially when the bully uses his pack of friends to help. Some people are just genetically wired to be more timid and are going to have a harder time of things... that's life. It's not pretty, it's not fair, but it is what it is. You'll always have the quiet kid sitting in the corner by himself, while the pack makes fun and turns him into potentially another movie theater massacre waiting to happen. It takes the parent to notice and dedication on their part to instill self confidence in the child in order to help reverse this.

[apsvinet]

Shouldn't the parents be a bit more aware of what their eleven year old does on the internet?
Quite awful nonetheless
#stopponybullying

[hilariousandco]

This, this is precisely what causes mass shootings at schools and yes I went there so try not to turn the thread into a flamewar over my comment, while I haven't had to deal with shit like that I can totally understand it and I'm sure anyone else who's had to deal with scumbags at school know what it's like having to deal with that crap on a daily basis.

p.s. 'Bullying' is just a sugar coated word for harassment and assault that adults use to try and trivialise a crime people would otherwise go to jail for if they weren't so young

Seriously though who the fuck targets someone over a fucking cartoon?

Kids do. There needs to be more education in schools about bullying and its effects. Whilst bullying is a terrible thing, kids wont often realise it or know the damage they're causing, but also some people are just more sensitive than others. What some people might call bullying others might just see it as having a joke. I mean, people are gonna joke about a boy loving My Little Pony. That's just how kids are.

[Lethn]

No there doesn't, compulsory education needs to be abolished and clear self-defence laws made >_<

[hilariousandco]

No there doesn't, compulsory education needs to be abolished and clear self-defence laws made >_<

There are clear self-defence laws. Are you saying little kids should be kicking the shit out of each other each time somebody picks on them for liking My Little Pony?

[apsvinet]

No there doesn't, compulsory education needs to be abolished and clear self-defence laws made >_<

This might be the stupidest thing I've read in a long time

[hilariousandco]

No there doesn't, compulsory education needs to be abolished and clear self-defence laws made >_<

This might be the stupidest thing I've read in a long time

Be careful, or he might 'block' you. I've been 'blocked' by him at least twice now.

[Lethn]

No there doesn't, compulsory education needs to be abolished and clear self-defence laws made >_<

This might be the stupidest thing I've read in a long time

You could explain that maybe? And lol I hope you guys have actually tried reading the self-defence laws out there but if I go into detail with that I'll derail this whole thread.

[hilariousandco]

No there doesn't, compulsory education needs to be abolished and clear self-defence laws made >_<

This might be the stupidest thing I've read in a long time

You could explain that maybe? And lol I hope you guys have actually tried reading the self-defence laws out there but if I go into detail with that I'll derail this whole thread.

You can always start a new one.

[E.exchanger]

Poor kid iam feeling too bad for him. Bullying is definitely against the law and anyone does it should be in jail.