I still hate people

[moonwise]

I've been following the story about the Rutgers student who committed suicide after his roommate streamed video of him having sex with another male to the Internet. It makes me very sad and angry, because I simply cannot fathom what would possess someone to do such a thing. Okay, maybe you don't like your roommate, but 1. that does not excuse anything 2. you are not alone in that experience 3. you can get a new roommate if you are really that offended by his sexual preference. What infuriates me is the possibility that the two students who recorded the encounter thought that perhaps what they were doing was funny.

Fucking barrel of laughs, you two. Congratulations, you killed someone.

Comments

[utenatai.livejournal.com]

I haven't been keeping up on the details of this, but it's frankly not clear to me that this was done out of hate rather than stupidity. And it doesn't surprise me that this sort of thing is happening on campus at all - wasn't there some teenage movie where a bunch of kids webcast some nerdy kid losing it in his pants while he was trying to get it on with a hot girl in her bedroom? I can see where in the realm of college pranks video taping your roommate is right up there with fucking on their bed.

Obviously it's not okay, obviously what they did is illegal, even, and obviously the consequences in this case were tragic. But I'm sorry to say, I doubt broadcasting your roommate having sex over the internet is even an outlier on the scale of stupid things that college students do to each other.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

I would guess that the roommate who did the taping was annoyed that he was being kicked out of his room - from the Twitter feeds, the tone seems to be "hur hur, watch this." It doesn't sound like a hate crime, you're right, but it's still shitty.