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In reply to the discussion: Some disturbing stuff I have been following-the bus monitor and the threats to the little tormentors [View all]antigone382
(3,682 posts)I just don't think they should be getting death threats or classified as irredeemable sociopaths. Everyday, "good," people have incredible capacity to hurt others in the right environment--look up the Milgram or Stanford Prison experiments for proof of that--and what I see in many of the comments and actions responding to these boys reflect the very same human nastiness that these boys themselves displayed. What disturbs me so much about Romney's action is that he has displayed no remorse for it years after the fact. If these boys are capable of feeling remorse, accepting some consequence (that perhaps doesn't quite rise to the level of death by firing squad, if that's all right with the Internet folks), and of learning from their behavior (which we have no way of knowing, because even if they do apologize to her in person, the media can't record an underage person without his or her parents' consent), then that should be enough.