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coolmiles
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do you think he was serioully planning something |
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tygerchickchibi
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x_x ugh, triple posting?
You know, if he boycotts anime, it won't necessarily be a bad thing, as long as he's quiet about it. |
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AY War Horse
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Whoa BennyMono i do not know what in my reply to you says i don't like anime? I really don't think you understand the article, the point of this thread and this forum. And in regards to moderators deleting a thread of yours well i am sure they had good reason and if you have complaints don't post these on a public thread PM them and put forward your objections this is not the place for these sort of posts. And i have to agree that boycotting school is more sense than boycotting the anime but only if you go to the school the article is talking about, and well don't tell us about it being as it is between Benny and the school. |
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coolmiles
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i didn't mean to do that, i'm new to forums |
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Joe anime
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Wishing death on someone isn't something i wouldn't take lightly too.and with all thses campus shootings happing,i don't blame the school for doing what they had to do. |
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Joe anime
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Your're correct.after what happened in Columbine,all schools should take matters of this sort very seriously. |
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Joe anime
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Yes,your're right.i would've felt threanted and went to school officials about this.i'm sure my parents would've done same thing. I apologize for the comment i made. |
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Weazul-chan
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braves
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That's exactly right. Wasn't there a shooting at a university just recently? You can't take chances with these things. |
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Richard J.
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I actually have some similar experience to this situation, don't ask, but I think the school is within it's rights to go this far. At the same time, personally, I wouldn't have removed the kid outright just for this.
Would I call in a psychiatrist to give the kid a nice little evaluation? Yes. Would I do an investigation to see if there is anything else that might indicate the kid is a danger? Sure. I wouldn't kick the kid out for one single incident that isn't an overt threat. (Then again, I don't know enough about this situation. Maybe the kid is exceedingly suspicious in enough ways that the school felt he possessed an immediate threat by preponderance of the evidence.) My personal feeling is that schools aren't doing enough to prevent these sorts of problems from starting early on. People blame easy access to guns but that doesn't address the underlying mental issues involved. Kids are wanting to murder each other and every one's so busy trying to figure out what part of popular culture to blame, that they seem to be forgetting that the solution has to be on the level of the individual or it won't work. (Seriously, even if we eliminated every single violent book, TV show, manga, anime, video game, song, etc., we'd still have violent people.) Regardless, this isn't an anti-anime/manga thing. This is a "we're not taking any chances anymore" thing. Schools are Zero-Tolerance zones now, growing more like prisons every year. Parents have got to sit there kids down and drill into their heads on a regular basis that they can't do anything that might even remotely seem dangerous. The schools are in siege mentality and anything that they perceive as a threat has to go. |
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Kruszer
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If you want the troll back under the bridge where they belong don't feed them. It only makes more work for the Mods. I speak from experience as Mod on another board myself. 
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fighterholic
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Let's take another look at it, people. The kid might have been in trouble already, for something he had done in earlier days, and this could have been the last straw for him. The fact that he was found with a "Death Note" didn't make his situation any better. What's done has been done, so there's not too much more I think we can dwell on for this story.
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Kirkdawg
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I agree that serious, willful intents to harm should be handled by the appropriate authorities; my problem is with the knee jerk reaction at first sight of a mere possible indication that someone may be harboring these thoughts and emotions. Unless an investigation is conducted and more evidence is brought into play (i.e. friend or relative describing how this child appears depressed/angry lately or a secret weapons stash), then I see no reason to take extreme action. Not only does our media have an influence on our youth, a perpetuating state of fear pulsing in the environment where their learning takes place ALSO has a direct effect upon them.
If I were the school official, I'd want to sit down with the kid and have a talk. A serious talk-not the one liner "Why do want to kill *so and so*?" Preferably, a school official that knows this kid on a personal level should be the one trying to get a gauge on him. If no school officials have a personal relationship with him, then I say our public education system has failed beyond measure. Someone commented on how a throng of screen names behind avatars are defending this kid, but let it be known that if this were to happen in my town-I would be asking questions about how much of an investigation (if any) was made before this sort of action was taken. Judging solely based on the appearance of a single item (to this extreme) is scary to me. |
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AY War Horse
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Good point but I felt i had to say something, i mean ok others had replied and that should be enough but it was a response in shock to be honest. And so i apologise now if my actions were incorrect and I think that is enough said about that. |
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posterior_praiser
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It is NEVER okay to write people's names down in a hitlist, which is what a Death Note implies. Of course the school is going to freak out. I think this just exemplifies the fact that these kinds of threats are finally being taken seriously, because if even one of these Death Notes had serious intentions the restults could be catestrophic.
In my opinion, the problem goes back to the increasingly violent behaviour being generalized in young people these days, especially young men (who the mass school shooters almost always are). Our culture is increasingly acquating masculenity with violent and aggressive behaviour, and young men think they need to have guns in order to gain the respect of their peers. This is a huge problem that needs to be addressed and as of yet has not. It's too deeply engrained in our culture now to be an easy fix. But I digress. Death Notes in schools are not the problem, violence is. But ANY threat of violence needs to be taken seriously by schools, so for goodness sakes, don't write names in those books and expect not to get in trouble if someone finds it. How are they to know if you're being serious or not? Last edited by posterior_praiser on Sun Mar 02, 2008 8:17 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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