Kid suspended for having a Deathnote on a bus
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Exactly, so the teachers can't punish the kids simply becuase they suspect them of being foul to the boy.Riobux said:
I think the best course of action would be to simply separate the boys as much as possible. Its late in the school year, and they're about to go to high school. So simply separating the boys should work wonders. I also think its the duty of the mom to talk to her son, rather than to expect the school to punish his bullies.
I think people here might be underestimating how fucked up living in western Pennsylvania can make you. I live there. It's like Twin Peaks meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre here. But, this case might be more this mom being overprotective.
I think it's also the duty of the school to maybe forward the kid to a child psychiatrist or child clinical psychologist (preferably the later than the previous). To actually give the kid some actual mental health help. Bullying sucks hard and some people never truly escape from it. Sure they do physically, but mentally it's always there.Pimppeter2 said:
It looks it. The only other proper anime I've watched is Full Metal Alchemist, but I'm sure I can get into Death Note.AC10 said:
Soo, the concerned mother says the boy has psychological issues (she knows that how?) and so he needs to be arrested?? I mean, I understand the concern, but calm the fuck down.
He let people see it!? You're not supposed to take it with you! You're supposed to keep it in your room stuffed between your porn magazines!
...And the people are over-reacting. The anime wouldn't encourage him to take action against these people, only write their names down in hopes that something would happen to them.
...And the people are over-reacting. The anime wouldn't encourage him to take action against these people, only write their names down in hopes that something would happen to them.
God damn. From the fact that one mum got all over protective shows she's probably always spoiled her child and made him feel "special", thus turning him into the bully he allegedly is, and now the bullied kid gets suspended, and probably faces even further social ostrasism due to all this going so public.
Seems like they're exsasberating the problem a bit here. The bullies get the victim card, and probably be even worse to the poor kid, meanwhile the kid ends up feeling even more alone and victimised, by the whole community now, not just some kids.
Also, anyone who thinks that there is something "deeply wrong" with the kid has obviously never been bullied at that age. Any kid who does will have some coping mechanism like that, and a simple death note is pretty tame. I once detailed an elaborate torture chamber for my tormentors, and another time I even started bringing a knife into school...
Seems like they're exsasberating the problem a bit here. The bullies get the victim card, and probably be even worse to the poor kid, meanwhile the kid ends up feeling even more alone and victimised, by the whole community now, not just some kids.
Also, anyone who thinks that there is something "deeply wrong" with the kid has obviously never been bullied at that age. Any kid who does will have some coping mechanism like that, and a simple death note is pretty tame. I once detailed an elaborate torture chamber for my tormentors, and another time I even started bringing a knife into school...
Well, I mean, no duh it's going to scare people. But I figured it would be a death note related thing, but the fact of the matter is a real life death note was cause horrible problems and be scary as shit. And also, aren't you not allowed to remove the page? I read the anime for a little while, remember liking it. But isn't it like whoever touches the note can see the death god and such? Idk.
I think the freedom of speech should protect the abillity of people to do things like keep "Death Lists" if they really feel like it. Acting on such an impulse is one thing, but this is something else entirely. What's more violence and a desire for revenge, even murder, are part of human nature, a point which is made in song, books, movies, and artwork through the ages. Trying to ignore the problem or punish the kid doesn't change the fundemental way we are wired.
What's more, "Death Note" has become fairly mainstream due to the contreversy, it's pure fantasy, and people should realize it. It doesn't even have the same backround behind it as Voodoo or whatever, and they sell Voodoo kits and such to make dolls of people you don't like in bloody Borders books (or they did, in those little tiny gift box things near the register), not to mention all the other places you can get them.
Simply put it's a way of blowing off steam, and I feel the same way about it as I do suspending kids for drawing violent pictures, or having guns depicted somewhere on their clothing, or whatever else. Truthfully, I was concerned about things going to these levels back when *I* was a kid (even if I didn't have a normal childhood) and rulings were being made saying that kids didn't have the same rights as adults under the constitution and such, allowing for school regulation. Fears that things would go this far were dismissed as "silly" and "alarmist" but here we are, although admittedly it did take Columbine and a few other incidents to get the ball rolling to this point.
At any rate, that's my opinion. I understand the logic, but when you get down to it, all the kid is doing is making a list of names in a notebook. That's his right. Heck, I have the right to write all kinds of horrible plans of vengeance in a personal diary if I want to as well. It might come up as evidence if something happens to those people similar to what I write and someone knows it, but it's both my right and the risk I take.
What's more I will say that I've heard a lot of horror writers/creators were inspired by their own thoughts of vengeance and stuff in school. Some even going so far as to make a point about the reality of locales where certain things happen. This kid's imagintive revenge fantasies might very well make him the next Steven King, Clive Barker, Dean Koontz, etc...
What's more, "Death Note" has become fairly mainstream due to the contreversy, it's pure fantasy, and people should realize it. It doesn't even have the same backround behind it as Voodoo or whatever, and they sell Voodoo kits and such to make dolls of people you don't like in bloody Borders books (or they did, in those little tiny gift box things near the register), not to mention all the other places you can get them.
Simply put it's a way of blowing off steam, and I feel the same way about it as I do suspending kids for drawing violent pictures, or having guns depicted somewhere on their clothing, or whatever else. Truthfully, I was concerned about things going to these levels back when *I* was a kid (even if I didn't have a normal childhood) and rulings were being made saying that kids didn't have the same rights as adults under the constitution and such, allowing for school regulation. Fears that things would go this far were dismissed as "silly" and "alarmist" but here we are, although admittedly it did take Columbine and a few other incidents to get the ball rolling to this point.
At any rate, that's my opinion. I understand the logic, but when you get down to it, all the kid is doing is making a list of names in a notebook. That's his right. Heck, I have the right to write all kinds of horrible plans of vengeance in a personal diary if I want to as well. It might come up as evidence if something happens to those people similar to what I write and someone knows it, but it's both my right and the risk I take.
What's more I will say that I've heard a lot of horror writers/creators were inspired by their own thoughts of vengeance and stuff in school. Some even going so far as to make a point about the reality of locales where certain things happen. This kid's imagintive revenge fantasies might very well make him the next Steven King, Clive Barker, Dean Koontz, etc...
