Why do people like this exist?

[Zestfully Clean]

Shushi, no one "attacked the victim." The Penn State case was more complicated because Joe Paterno did more than anyone else to report the crime, and was shot down, and people went on a witch hunt for him. Yet, if Paterno didn't report it, no one would have known. Nobody was protesting in favor of Sandusky.... just because it involves a respected school sports team does not make it the same thing. This isn't even close to being the same thing as the Ohio football players, because in this case, it's now widely known that many students know about it, as well as the parents, even the principle, where we know *for a definite fact* that they covered it up. (edit - okay but they are different scenarios. Sandusky was a pedophile just happened to be the coach of a major university team, and paterno tried to get justice. These boys did this openly and no one tried to get justice.)

Anyway, the whole case with the kids in Ohio is absolutely messed up. What's interesting about this, is that I have taken all sorts of psychology and human behavior courses and I understand that there are things that will manipulate human behavior. The Stanford prison experiment was when students were given the role as fake inmates and fake guards--and it wasn't long before the "guards" started abusing the "inmates." Then you have the case, forget what it's called, where people were told they were giving huge shocks to people, to see how much people responded to authority. Even if they thought they were torturing the person being shocked, and even if they felt bad about it, the person in authority kept telling them to do it, they were instructed tokeep administering shocks and they listened. Prime examples of how people's behavior can be manipulated....

But I never, ever heard of a group of young men--even high schoolers--who would be okay with gang raping an unconscious girl, much less LAUGHING about it afterwards. It's not even about them being football players because in the end, they could have just been average teenagers. It makes me wonder if any of them have sisters, because if they did, there's no way they even took one second to think: what if this was my sister? This isn't the average "mob mentality" that happens amongst people. I just wonder what the hell could have gotten into --not one, but ALL of those kids' heads. Also, they thought they deleted those tapes. The reason why it was leaked is because of that "Anonymous" hacker, who threatened to release the kids' and parents' personal information, ss numbers etc., if they didn't make a public apology to the girl.

It is, though, wildly similar to the case in the 80's with that mentally challenged girl who was lured by a local high school football team and gangraped