What is wrong with the internet?

[gigastar]

OP and thread title dont match up...

Oh well ill answer both.

Main problem with the net is that 95.9999995% of its user base are self-centred heartless bastards. the remaining 4.0000005% are either genuine charity workers, or new.

As for what Casey did, its merely the realisation that anyone can replicate moves in Street Fighter perfectly without practice if you have enough pent up rage under your collar.

Its also being fastracked to most triumphant example of the schoolyard victim fighting back. And succeeding.

 

[ilspooner]

I don't think he really came close to being killed. And besides, what would you have done in that situation? Let him keep punching you? Give him a little slap on the wrist and hope he would go away?

 

[Nouw]

Yeah guys because violence is totally the answer. And I've read Starship Troopers!

 

[TheBoulder]

Damn, I thought this was a thread was about how OP was offended by the internet in general, not this specific video.
It shows how a boy fucking lost it after a dumbshit kid tried bullying him. Admit it, if ever you were bullied, you would want to do that.

 

[w@rew0lf]

Ender's Game, anyone?

That's a rough comparison. The Casey and his bully are not in a shared restroom wrapped in towels, not a single one of them ends up naked and/or dead as a result of their fight and they are not in space learning to be raid canisters in human form.

 

[WolfEdge]

Most have you have probaly heard / read the story of Casey the kid who got bullied and pile drove the bully into a sidewalk. There is a thread about it on this site, but on that thread and throughout the entire internet people are congratulating Casey
Casey nearly killed another child in a fit of rage, this is not a good thing! The bully wasnt right at all and should be punished but what about Casey? What is next time he goes into a rage fit he pile drives or pushes a kid and accidently kills them like he almost did already?

I'm going to quote a snippet from the latest Penny Arcade post:

"I don't have any good advice for people in Casey's situation, other than to say that we are occasionally dealt into games we had no intention of playing.

I do, however, have advice for those who feel compelled for whatever reason to pick on That Kid. I needn't name them here. The trouble with picking on That Kid is that eventually every cruelty, every glancing impact, and every foot-pound of stored kinetic force will erupt - black liquor at cask strength. You will cease to be the tormentor of the moment and will instead become the red and leaping Devil, a vessel for human evil as a generality, an amalgamation. That is to say, not human. You will become an object. An icon.

This is an outcome you want to avoid.

(CW)TB out."

If you honestly think this is the One Time Casey has been bullied for his weight, then you are most definitely mistaken. This isn't some kid with anger management issues zerging on some poor unsuspecting target, this is a young man pushed to his absolute breaking point after what likely amounted to years of torment. To blame him for finally snapping and taking out his pent-up frustration (a frustration that likely stems from being unable to comprehend why this boy and others seem to hate him), is to ignore how the human mind, especially the mind of a child, functions under extreme pressure.

 

[AceAngel]

Dear TC,

I would like to see what would YOU do, if someone happy slapped you and bullied you all your school year, and then asked a friend of his to phone the events.

Plus, I would like to know what your last resort will be if you told the teachers and even your parents, and they did much ado about nothing, other then speaking between 'grown ups'.

What Casey did was overthetop, I agree, but he had did it for the right reasons, and he is the one who is in the right. If you want to get religious, we could say Casey should have turned the other cheek, but frankly speaking, not even that is enough for skinny little kids who wear sideway hats, wear fake gold bling, and post their status on facebook.

Casey was right, the little skinny gangsta-wanker who sums up the filth and epitome of decadent parenting and a failed system was wrong, get over it. We don't need anymore topics about who 'this wasn't necessary, wah wah wah'.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

What is next time he goes into a rage fit he pile drives or pushes a kid and accidently kills them like he almost did already?

It's possible he can accidently dump the kid into radioactive waste and turn him into Spiderman.

It's called valuable life lessons -- imagine the bully as a dog and the victim as the master. The dog bites the master, the master hits the dog on the nose. Now, the dog knows not to bite his master, and this point never would've gotten across faster by talking to the dog.

 

[Biosophilogical]

Still, some people, such as myself, have a sense of justice in which violent acts that are wrong are rewarded with greater violence in order to place the perpetrator in the victims place, and let them suffer it a little.

That might be why they're cheering him on.

I feel I'm different. I'd never condone causing another person/self-aware creature pain without any greater and balancing purpose (revenge doesn't count). So if, for example, this had been an isolated incident and Casey had flown off the handle, I'd be against it (though, given the situation, violence would have been the only productive solution, so if it had been an isolated incident, I wouldn't have been opposed to punching the bully in the gut and pinning him to the ground in a non-lethal manner). However, this was a chain of bullying with Casey suffering actualy physical damage from it (not to mention the emotional/psychological abuse) so therefore I completely condone this (I'd have preferred it to be a less risky method, you know, one that doesn't have such a close-call with death, but I still condone it because it is the best course of action to stop the bully).

So yeah, revenge? No. Teaching a lesson? Yes, though at least try and keep the damage to a minimum.

EDIT:

Dude, I wouldn't worry about Casey flying into a rage. It took three solid blows to the face before he reacted. And even then, he stopped immediately after the slam instead of continuing to attack.

Exactly. What Casey did not only showed amazing self-restraint (three face-punches before a reaction, and then one single move which served to stop the bully). I mean seriously, at least a year of bullying, physcially and emotionally, and his retaliation is not only in self-defence, and not only considerably reasonable (given that we can probably all agree that a physically dominant response is the only one that would have had actualy results), but also well-restrained. Sure, a pile-driver may seems like a non-restrained gesture, but picking someone up and throwing them tends more towards the 'non-lethal/control' intent rather than the vengeance driven ''beat them in the face with your fists' tactic. The fact that it could have easily killed the boy seems more like an accident of the situation, rather than any intent to risk the bully's life.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Lots of gamers were bullied in their childhood and wanted to beat up the guy. They're doing it vicariously through this kid. Violence is not the answer though.

 

[legion431]

Then they shouldn't be bullying him in the first place.

Also natural selection.

Yep, natural selection.
Nature should have a way of getting rid of the weak and ignorant people and leave a good race behind, but no, instead we have kids like the one Casey destroyed being protected.

 

[flim.geek.chic]

if the kid got hurt, it's his own damn fault. I wonder what's wrong with the people who think Casey would have been better off allowing the little shit to kick his ass. it's sick. Casey did the right thing. every kid should take this as an example to follow: if a kid puts their hands on you, give em 3 chances to stop. if they don't stop coming at you, kick their ass until they stop. incapacitate, nothing more.

The "three strikes and your out rule", My dad taught me that one.
First time: tell them to quit it
Secound time: get a teacher
Third time: fucking let them have it
It simple and effective.

 

[legion431]

I'm also really pissed off to see all the other people just standing around watching it happen and not doing anything about it, camera person included.

 

[Eldarion]

Casey nearly killed another child in a fit of rage

Just, wow. Calm down. Exaggerations like that are totally unnecessary to make this point.

I can't believe you are trying to blow this that much out of proportion.

 

[Bobbity]

As I understand it, this wasn't just a one time thing. Casey had been consistently bullied for years, and no one had done anything about it.

If someone punches you in the face, you're going to hit them back, and you're going to believe that you bloody well have the right to do so. Casey was bullied for years, and he'd never fought back - as far as I know. Therefore, when he finally did strike back, everyone assumes that he's perfectly right in doing so.

I can tell you now, had I been in Casey's situation, I would have damned well punched that kid in the face, and believed that what I was doing was perfectly legitimate. For the people who say that violence isn't the answer, look around for a little more info on just what Casey had been going through.

On the other hand, he did really get the bully hard. Fracturing the kid's leg was unfortunate, but it doesn't mean that Casey was wrong.

/edit
Oh, looks like the kid didn't fracture his leg after all. Well, there goes that argument...

 

[Weskerbot3000]

Si cis pacem, para bellum
If you want peace, prepare for war
There are some people who can't respond to reason, so in the end Casey was in the right.

 

[flim.geek.chic]

Si cis pacem, para bellum
If you want peace, prepare for war
There are some people who can't respond to reason, so in the end Casey was in the right.

sorry this has nothing to do with the thread but...is that Legion in a dress? LOL <3 it!