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Dorm Violence....

kalisphoenix said:
Pfft :p Not in the Navy I was in.
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I'll assume you weren't in the Israeli Defense Forces, then. ;) No offense to whatever it was that you did, but the IDF tends to be quite amazing in comparison to other people and militaries.

thedude110 said:
I'm also wary of "military maturity." There is something beautiful and human in being lost -- in not knowing what "the right thing to do" is. To be human is to be, at least in part, up front and honest in our desperation. Sharronda's actions (and the implicit racism in the mockery of her name upsets me) demanded a courage that few of us in this forum could summon, and they reflect an emotional depth that many of us have never plumbed.

All of this is not a slight against those who are 18 and "responsible." But god knows we also need 18 year olds to challenge the very defiinition of "responsibility" we so readily impose (and presuppose).
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I couldn't care less about what Sharronda's name was. She attacked someone with a hot iron because she thought the room mate had a video camera hidden. That's not responsible-- she could have killed her room mate accidentally. If I attacked you, do I have courage? To some degree. But is that the wisest course to take? Probably not. Sharronda did sound like she needed some kind of mental help. But how was what she did responsible?
 
Mr. Anderson said:
wow - all that for a hidden camera? weirdness.
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What do you mean by that? If my 1st year roommate had a hidden camera, I'd pee on him while he was asleep. You can substitute the word "pee" with petrol, s***, whatever.

Of course, I doubt there was a hidden camera in that room, but if you assume that there WAS a camera in that room, you shouldn't really say, "Meh, so what? What's the big deal?"
 
Abstract said:
Of course, I doubt there was a hidden camera in that room, but if you assume that there WAS a camera in that room, you shouldn't really say, "Meh, so what? What's the big deal?"
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The big deal is that it was stupid, which you so nicely said yourself.
Assume camera, shouldn't say "so what?" is something I agree with. You can't fix stupid, people.
 
thedude110 said:
Sharronda's actions (and the implicit racism in the mockery of her name upsets me) demanded a courage that few of us in this forum could summon, and they reflect an emotional depth that many of us have never plumbed.
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I'm not sure what you're getting at here, but as far as I'm concerned felonious assault with a hot iron demands more cowardice than courage, and more shallow rage than emotional depth.

Whether the injured girl provoked the attack or not she's got a fractured skull and burnt arm. Her family will probably hire a hot-shot lawyer and sue the already incarcerated Sharronda and her family into abject poverty. Everybody loses, Yay!

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Why does she have to be crazy? Why does it have to be a chemical imbalance?

Why couldn't she have been brought up in a tough neighborhood? Why couldn't she have not had any good role models? Why couldn't she just be plain ghetto? Clearly (from what info we have) communication is not her strong point.
 
I go to BGSU...I live in Anderson and was 3 rooms down from it. For the record, there WASNT an actual camera. The girl was paranoid. The one that got attacked even went and told another girl in the hall earlier that morning that her roommate was schizophrenic. She had to be a little messed up. She was standing in the hallway waiting for hours for the girl to come home and was ready with a hot clothes iron....plus the girl wasnt very friendly when we'd all try to talk to her.
 
I live accross the street from that dorm (Conklin).

I mean talk about weird and scary...I mean Bowling Green is a farm town for crying out loud.
 
Brother Michael said:
I mean talk about weird and scary...I mean Bowling Green is a farm town for crying out loud.
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I'm also wary of "weird and scary" (and the elitism implicit in calling Bowling Green a "farm town" is very upsetting to me). The will of modern farmers to have a go at making their living from the earth summons a courage from depths that most of us on MacRumors should wish we had the wisdom to plumb...

yeah, well, whatever "dude". and pass the bong while you're at it, eh? There's something beautiful and human about acting civilized. Without that much, we're all as good as wild animals; does anyone really think they'd rather live in a totally barbarian world as opposed to the one that asks its inhabitants for a bit of civility and (gasp) "responsibility"? i mean, jeez louise already... :rolleyes:
 
haha!! That's my school! It happened about 400 meters from where I live. I couldn't believe that happened. Just imagine if it were the other way around -- We'd have Kanye West saying how all of us white people are racial bigots and not just our president. I don't understand people.
 
thedude110 said:
A lot of kids go to school and either go off their meds or begin to adjust their dosages on their own (especially if there's been a long-held resistance to those meds in the first place). Don't mean to presume (though I guess I'm actively presuming), but it sounds like that could be the case here ....
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It seems to be a good guess, taking prescribed medicine was one of the conditions of her bail.
 
Mechcozmo said:
I'll assume you weren't in the Israeli Defense Forces, then. ;) No offense to whatever it was that you did, but the IDF tends to be quite amazing in comparison to other people and militaries.
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you are comparing apples and oranges.
either you're saying that every 18 ys old ISRAELI, who is not in the IDF is a raging lunatic (and can support that with facts) or what you're saying is completely irrelevant to the military angle.
 
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