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

[pantswarrior]

The really messed up thing? The guy that did it apparently didn't hate his roommate. At least according to a few people who knew him, he had told them that school was going well so far, and his roommate was pretty nice. So I'm thinking that "did it for the lulz" is exactly right here. :P

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I bet the roommate and his accomplice think it's a lot less funny now that they're looking at jail time too.

[skurtchasor.livejournal.com]

3. You can get a new roommate if you are really that offended by his sexual preference.

I seriously doubt it works that way in general. A university that honors such a request could potentially be construed as discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation.

[sideburnpower.livejournal.com]

I lack words.

[wynndfae.livejournal.com]

I first read about this yesterday and was infinitely appalled. I still am. I think about the Rutgers students living above us and wonder how they feel about this. They're in their final year so I doubt they knew the victim, but they seem like okay kids who would take offense to this. Or maybe they're glad they're leaving after this year. :/

[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.