Newspaper+Editorial

= __What you do today affects tomorrow!__ =  My opinion on the Tyler Clementi case is very strong. I think it was extremely churlish to put a camera in his dorm. What would posses a student such as Dharun Ravi to spy on another student? Every person in this world is different in many ways, but we are all unique. Just because someone is gay or bisexual doesn’t mean you can or should treat them any differently. They are people, too. Also, Molly Wei, the person whose computer was used to post the video of Tyler on the internet, should have done something. In my mind she should have said no to Ravi because his intentions were cruel. She should have stopped the video from going viral. The video was downloaded onto her computer so she had the power to stop it. I believe a lot could have been done to prevent the cyberbullying.  I think the punishments were not as harsh as they should have been. Dharun Ravi was sent to jail for 10 years and might be deported back to India when released. I believe that if you bully someone to the brink of suicide that you should have a life in jail, and if the death penalty is an option, use it. I strongly believe that if you made a life of a human miserable then you should have a miserable life too. Sending someone to jail doesn’t necessarily mean that he learned his lesson. Molly, who I have already discussed, should have been punished more. When I read her verdict I shook my head in disgust. I think the judicial system just slapped her on the wrist and let her go like nothing ever happened. She was left go with 300 hours of community service and bullying classes. More should have been done because she was a direct contributer to the cyberbullying of Tyler Clementi. She had to have seen the video, and probably laughed and encouraged Ravi to post it, when she should have been discouraging that type of behavior. So what is community service and bullying classes going to do? To have allowed something as atrocious as this to happen on her computer shows that her morals and values are virtually nil. I have doubts will listen or take it seriously. She already showed how she chose to act. “A man has two choices; the good choice and the right choice". Which one did they choose?