Well I suppose we can look forward to a revival of the "SRS BSNS" spam and endless joker references being thrown at anyone who gets angry in a video game on our favorite competitive video games in some sort of poorly thought out scheme to prevent this from happening in the future. -_-;
(Just like last time, and the time before that! Yay progress!)
I can feel the parts of my brain dictating logic and humor screaming in agony already.
Taking a step back, I should explain myself. This sort of thing happens... well, not very often. In fact, it's an extremely rare crime in the grand scheme of things. Being someone who accepts that we cannot 100% kill crime, I don't really feel obligated to care past sympathy for the victim and justice being done to the offender... which have both been done. That being said, it amazes me how people freak out at this as if attacks over the internet are a large problem or at any risk of becoming one. Not only does it get harder and harder to defeat crime the closer we get to actually getting rid of it altogether, but we've got hundreds upon hundreds of bigger problems on our priority list that we can use the same manpower to make a much bigger difference!
That and the methods with which people fight it in video games are /always/ horribly ineffective. It's amazing how trolls and people genuinely trying to help can act the same way in video games. It baffles me, quite frankly.
You'd think it would occur to people trying to help that telling people to get over it with lame, often spammed humor is a terrible way to get anything done. Rational people who are not prone to hunting people down over the internet will just get angrier and at the end of the day, nothing will get done except taking a dozen minutes out of their lifespan via stress. Irrational people who are, will be provoked into doing exactly that, hunting people down!
These people need serious professional help, not a kick in the pants. >>; Quite frankly, considering from the sound of it, the boy who was attacked is going to be okay, the world is probably a better place because of this incident. (Mainly because logic dictates that offender needs to be put in jail and kept in jail until he gets enough therapy to qualify as /sane/ again.)
...On the bright side, perhaps this can be used as an example of why /not killing internet anonymity/ and instead protecting it is important. I glare at Mark Zuckerberg when I say that.
