• Should bullies be accountable for suicides that they caused?
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Hello everyone, allow me to present my view on the debate on this specific subject. Allow it to be said that bullying itself is a concious and widely known malicious act unlike being intoxicated by alcohol which it can impair judgement of the mind and slur one's actions, thus the claim that people do not know what they're doing when they're bullying is irrelevant, allow my evidence to support this on one's morality and ethics, a Bully knows that they're specifically targeting someone or a group and is causing harm to them by alienation, stress, assault and emotional stress. When someone accidentally causes grief they themselves usually respond to the person by apologizing, a bully doesn't and has the inverse effect by actually enjoying the pain they cause. Bullying should be held accountable if it has been a significant problem leading up to the person's suicide, that if someone has died and there have been known complications at school targeted the individual and has had a prolonged effect lasting more-so than two months showing reckless disregard and malicious action towards the individual with the intent of causing harm. When the said individual suicides the court must look towards the bully and present the fact that they're actions have contributed towards the death of the individual and judge their actions following a week prior before sending judgement as I consider that to be the appropriate amount of time to judgement of the individuals actions and consider to file a case towards the individual as an accessory to the suicide. If the individual has been struck with grief at the subject or doesn't show enjoyment or boasting towards said dead individual then the case should not be considered to go ahead, while on the contrary where the defendant has been specifically juvenile in his actions, boasting and parading of how he did not care for the individuals death, then the charge should be forwarded and set up as a case. The charge and case should specifically apply to the defendant(s) who have reached the age of 13 years and beyond, and the charge itself should not be specifically doom the defendant's life to a prison beyond bars, it should be considerable and only at five years in prison maximum, but community services should be reccomended and mandatory anger control classes should be given to the defendant.
Yes, since they shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
[QUOTE=Keyblockor;34319626]The charge and case should specifically apply to the defendant(s) who have reached the age of 13 years and beyond...[/QUOTE] I would say the most bullying happens 11-14 so that would leave half of the cases out of consideration. Perhaps something like: Sentence*(age-1)/10 so for instance an 11 year old might get 1 year but a 16 year old would get one and a half. There would have to be a cap of say 2x because otherwise you could get 7 or 8 times the basic sentence, which you put as 5 years (35 years, a longer tariff than most murderers.).
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