1. Who is responsible for
Tyler's Death? Perhaps more than one person is responsible? You may want to
place responsibility based on percentage. Some examples of who may hold
responsibility are, Tyler himself, Tylers Parents, Dharun Ravi, Molly Wei, or
even Rutger's university?
After reading four
different sources (including the two sources provided from BB, I would have to
say that Tyler was responsible for his own death. I believe there were
influential factors such as his mother not initially embracing that her son was
gay, and then of course the incident at hand. Tyler's roommate, Dharun Ravi had
no intentions of Tyler to cause physical harm or death to himself. Ravi's
childish actions perpetuated Tyler's insecurity of being gay, which most likely
lead him to jump off the George Washington Bridge. After the hearing of New Jersey VS Dharun Ravi, Rutgers’s
University changed some of their dorm room policies, which made it more
comfortable for students to choose roommates. Having more freedom to choose roommates regardless of the
student’s sex, Rutgers believes it’ll help prevent another incident like this
from happening again.
2. Is there something
that could have been done to prevent this? It seems like some people
watched the posted video, why didn't anyone step up?
Of course there could have been something that could have
prevented this from happening, but just like all other things in life,
something tragic needs to happen before policies are changed. Could a student have spoke up, sure,
but would that have prevented Tyler from committing suicide? I guess we’ll never know. It’s the classic game of “Could of,
would of, and should of”. I do
believe if the video had never been streamed it may have prevented Tyler from
jumping off the George Washing, but only Ravi could have prevented that.
3. How do you think that
anti-bullying laws will impact cases like this?
I think the same laws under New Jersey Law, the privacy laws,
will be upheld with much more significance due to the sensitivity of bullying
in modern America. Unfortunately
there have been numerous cyber-bullying incidents that have lead to far too
many teen suicides. I think cyber-bullying
laws may help prevent teen suicides, but I honestly believe there just needs to
be more awareness of bullying in general.
We see bullying stories every day in the news so I don’t think new laws
are working as effectively as legislation thought it would. You need to address the issue at the
core, which is educate the public on what bullying is and the affects it may
have on individuals.
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