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Originally Posted by CarolinaPhi
We discussed this today in class. It's such a tragic thing that Tyler felt he had to take his own life to escape this & it's just disgusting that his roommate would do something like this! I believe that the two involved with the taping should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Doing an action that pushes another person so far that makes them take their own life should receive more than just an "invasion of privacy" charge. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but we were discussing in class that this should also fall under the charge of a hate crime & that's what the debate currently is. It is so alarming & just devastating the number of homosexual students (college, high school, & middle school) that felt this was their only solution in recent weeks.
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Can "hate crime" be attached to a non-violent* crime?
*I realize that the outcome was tragic, but the act itself wasn't violent.