[wpietri]

> I believe that his official charges were along those lines, but it was clear it was being taken more seriously because of the suicide.

Consequences have consequences.

If you, like every teen ever, fuck around behind the wheel, probably nothing will happen to you. If you are unlucky, you might get a minor ticket. Run over a child, though, and you're in for a world of hurt. Even though exactly the same amount of youthful off-goofing and bad driving is involved.

[infinite8s]

What, this makes no sense. In the second case your bad driving directly caused injury to someone (I'm assuming in the first case you do something stupid like drive into a tree).

[wpietri]

Right. Consequences (of your bad actions) have consequences (for you). We're in agreement.

I'm saying this to contradict ditonal's claim that bullies shouldn't be treated differently when their bullying contributes to suicide.