Looking At It All Wrong

Another "bullying" story where a teen hangs herself.

We are looking at these issues all wrong. You can't stop this vague idea of "bullying." Anyone who's lived in this world knows it.

The issue is privacy and how the internet is eroding it. People need to be able to make mistakes and do stupid things, especially when they are young, without being held to public account. This is how we grow, how we learn. In the future, if we continue to publicize everything about ourselves, our actions, our beliefs on live broadcast, we will all become the worst of all worlds: mealy mouthed politicians, unable to have an actual human opinion or response - all of our actions and words will be safe/pre-packaged, fearful of public scrutiny. We all all be saying a lot stuff without any meaning whatsoever.

How do people come to being moral creatures? It isn't zapped into our minds. It is through living and experiencing life and reading and learning and trying stuff that doesn't work. Abraham Lincoln would never have been Abraham Lincoln had he been subject to the type of scrutiny now given to everyone all the time. He would've probably be outed as a homosexual and never come to the very private (at first) conclusion about abolishing slavery and holding the Union together. Obviously, this is my own hyperbolic speculation. Nevertheless...