I'm surprised I've not seen a thread on here about the Michelle Carter case. How do you feel about this controversial case? I'm a little conflicted. Make your case for or against her. Was her sentence of two and a half years too light or should she have gotten off with just probation as the defense argued?

 

I think her eyebrows should have had to serve at least a year behind bars.

 

I'm also conflicted. Cold, heartless person.

 

Would this have been ruled differently if she was standing by and telling the boy exactly what to do to kill himself? Worse?

 

Eyebrows. :lol2:

I'm surprised I've not seen a thread on here about the Michelle Carter case. How do you feel about this controversial case? I'm a little conflicted. Make your case for or against her. Was her sentence of two and a half years too light or should she have gotten off with just probation as the defense argued?

 

I think her eyebrows should have had to serve at least a year behind bars.

 

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I agree about the eyebrows. :eek:

 

She should have to do 5 years based on them alone. :lol2:

If this is the case I think it is, I really don't understand what was going on in her head. I read through all of the text exchanges. Just sad.

She got off easy. The judge should have thrown the book at her and made an example of her.

I'm pretty torn over this. On the one hand, yeah she's pretty despicable for encouraging this guy to end his life...but I'd need to hear more about this. Was he constantly talking about it to the point that she was calling his bluff? I need more details.

 

And on the other hand we have free will. She didn't hold that guy down and physically force him to stay in that truck.

I have a hard time saying she got off easy.

 

At the end of the day, this kid was the one who made the decision. She never forced him to do anything. What she did was despicable and disgusting. She's a horrible human being. However, she didn't kill the kid. He did that, and he alone made that decision.

I have a hard time saying she got off easy.

 

At the end of the day, this kid was the one who made the decision. She never forced him to do anything. What she did was despicable and disgusting. She's a horrible human being. However, she didn't kill the kid. He did that, and he alone made that decision.

 

I feel like she harassed and could say that she as bullied him into it?

 

If a kid picked on another constantly in HS and told him to go kill himself. He does. I bet "the bully" would get sentenced to a lot worse. I don't feel like looking up cases on that but I just feel like they'd get more.

I feel like she harassed and could say that she as bullied him into it?

 

If a kid picked on another constantly in HS and told him to go kill himself. He does. I bet "the bully" would get sentenced to a lot worse. I don't feel like looking up cases on that but I just feel like they'd get more.

 

It's my understanding that he constantly talked about it long before she started encouraging him.

 

And I completely get what you're saying, but at the end of the day I just think a couple years in jail is a pretty significant sentence in these cases.

Is it fair to say that if you thought the teens in Florida who watched the man drown should have faced charges that you should feel that this girl should as well and visa versa? Personally, I feel like she is a horrible human being and needs some serious psychiatric help, but it is hard for me to understand the charge of manslaughter from a legal perspective. My head and my heart are at odds on this one.

I compare what she did to tossing a drowning man a brick. When someone was at their lowest/most vulnerable, she did everything she could to drag him down even further. She should feel absolute shame for what she did...but I bet she doesn't. I'd have no problems with more time on her sentence.

I compare what she did to tossing a drowning man a brick. When someone was at their lowest/most vulnerable, she did everything she could to drag him down even further. She should feel absolute shame for what she did...but I bet she doesn't. I'd have no problems with more time on her sentence.

 

Perspective is a strange thing sometimes. She had known this guy for some time, and he had talked about killing himself for some time (by reports). In a situation such as this, she may have been one of the most supportive people in this guy's life and may have provided constant feedback to him about his situation. It is also possible she grew tired of his talk and lost her own ability to empathize with a person who continually threatened to take his own life.

 

It's easy to place blame on her for her text messages, but context is a truth serum.

 

While I don't endorse her behavior, I understand what may have been the "why" behind her responses....it still does not make her any more responsible for his death than the people who heard him talk about suicide and did nothing to stop it.

 

Same coin, different side.

What she did is indefensible. Depression is not something to be toyed with and it's not anyone's place to "call his bluff."

 

I won't necessarily say her sentence should have been longer. But I wouldn't have disagreed if it had been.

Carter: "You just need to do it Conrad or I'm gonna get you help"

 

Carter: "You can't keep doing this everyday"

 

Roy: "Okay I'm gonna do it today"

 

Carter: "Do you promise"

 

Roy: "I promise babe"

 

Roy: "I have to now"

 

Carter: "Like right now?"

 

Roy: "where do I go? :("

 

Carter: "And u can't break a promise. And just go in a quiet parking lot or something."

 

Nothing about that is okay.

She got off easy. The judge should have thrown the book at her and made an example of her.

 

He should have thrown a home eyebrow waxing kit at her first!!!!