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Thud posted...

For me the difference and what I'm hung up on is would he have done this or gotten as drunk if he were out in public? I feel like he was at home, in his safe space and (very very poorly) reacted to a situation he didn't create or ask for, a group antagonizing him.

Certainly the kids do deserve sympathy and we all did dumb shit like this, but times have radically changed and imo there should be an equal amount of energy dedicated to why prank culture needs to stop and our kids need to understand "stranger danger" goes faaaaaaaar beyond creepy dudes in vans these days. If you don't know someone, don't mess with them regardless of how harmless it may seem. 4 lives are now over because of a mooning gone horribly wrong.

It sounds like you're just trying to rationalize victim blaming. We have a few other stories floating around of people saying they would be willing to kill those who just ring the wrong doorbell or who pull off ding dong ditch, as well as people killing others for what used to be considered simple misunderstandings and mistakes.

The people willing to kill others so flippantly for infractions that were considered either standard 90s pranks or frequent misunderstandings (such as the people who accidentally pulled into the driveway, homeowner shot into their car even though nobody even got out of the car, killing one of them) are definitely the ones who are at fault and deserve to be addressed as the abhorrent monsters they are.

Telling women they should wear longer skirts or no skirts at all is not the solution, the solution is to address the rapist and their actions, to reference the most classic example of victim blaming.