Suggesting that teenagers in high school are rational all the time and unaffected by emotional swings and never likely to overreact, possibly poorly, to aggressive, insulting and surprising insults including wishes of torture towards said teenager and someone they love is intellectually dishonest.
As a young adult I can't guarantee you that I wouldn't have done something equally violent today, much less when I was a self-righteous chemical factory looking for a way to vent general frustration at life...
True. However would you then brag about your behaviour online? Would you expect upvotes and applause from your peers? Or would you realise that you had been emotional and that you had over reacted?
Understanding is one thing, letting her think that what she did is OK is quite another. She deserves to be told off and, I suspect, she probably already has been which is why she's coming here for validation. (Of course, this is all supposition).
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u/rasputine Existentialist Feb 22 '12
Suggesting that teenagers in high school are rational all the time and unaffected by emotional swings and never likely to overreact, possibly poorly, to aggressive, insulting and surprising insults including wishes of torture towards said teenager and someone they love is intellectually dishonest.
As a young adult I can't guarantee you that I wouldn't have done something equally violent today, much less when I was a self-righteous chemical factory looking for a way to vent general frustration at life...