Not everyone has the convenience those other kids did. Options are on a case by case situation. Just because some other kids ran, doesn't mean you have the chance to. Hell, take fighting back for instance. Some kids are strong enough to defend themselves with fist alone, but not all of them. Thus hand to hand is not an option to the weaker victims(and bullies rarely go after the stronger target). Not to mention, not all cases of bullying go reported. Maybe bullies killing victims isn't "common", but how about kids committing suicide because of bullying, isn't that more common? Or how about self inflicted harm? That has to be far more common.
I fail to see the point of this situation being "somewhat rare" means to anyone. Statistics don't mean **** in this situation.
"those other kids" is a number that amounts to every other kid that has been in a rough situation that has not died, or killed someone. That's a pretty extensive list. That's not, like, 10 kids. I'd wager there's a similar situation going on in every high school in Canada, the US and the UK, or as good as. And kids committing suicide and self-inflicted harm both happen, but they are isolated from this situation. Those are things the bullied kid might have done when he got, for instance. Don't get me wrong, that's awful, but it's not my point. I'm talking about things that happen specifically during situations like this, not after-effects.
And stats mean a lot in this situation, yes. This is an outlier incident, so it's worth asking WHY it's an outlier incident.
One could argue that it's pointless to care for the life of someone that doesn't care for the life of others. It's unfortunate anyone had to die, but would you ask that child to continue enduring hell just for your idealistic viewpoint?
"doesn't care for the life of others"? Tell that to his parents and even his (douchebag) friends. And it's pretty obvious that the bullied kid here didn't care for the life of the guy he literally killed. Everybody "doesn't care for" the life of somebody.
If you don't know how it feels like, then your opinion on the matter is less than those who do know. You're just making wild guessing, you don't know a damn thing about what the kid was going through unless you've been in his shoes. Seeing someone be bullied, and being bullied yourself are significantly different.
...WTF, no it isn't.
Not knowing what it feels like if anything makes me objective. If, say, YOU know what it feels like you are more likely to see some of yourself in the bullied kid and some of YOUR bullies in the bully here, that makes your opinion far more skewed than mine.
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