Should bystanders in cyberbullying cases be penalize?
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If you commit a crime especially a serious one, you don't have a choice but to be intern unless you are given an opportunity to pay your bail. But if you are just the witness, why would the authority pick you and send you to jail? Why would they bother to do so, if they know and you know to yourself that you did nothing wrong? Isn't it the committers or the one who commit mistake deserves to be in jail?
Same to that those bystanders, why should they be penalize if they are not the one who commit the act of cyber bullying? The fact that bystanders are those people who just witness the act of bullying but not involve, they are still considered as the innocent one. They are not the one who makes that particular person suffer and so, they have nothing to do with the crime. They are not the person involve in taking the action and they are not the one who have a problem to the person being bullied. They are just the person who happen to witness the scene. They don't have any idea about it because they are just the witness. The witness that may help the person being bullied to solve his problem.
If the person who suffers from cyber bullying or in any type of bullying can't speak out for himself, with the help of bystanders he may be able to reach out for help.
Therefore, I stand that bystanders in cyber bullying cases shouldn't be penalize. I prefer the cyberbullies to be put in jail. Cyber bullying can happen anytime, anywhere with a lot of people who can see because it is done through the use of technology or any form of electronic gadget. If the people who just happen to see or witness the crime can't bare what it is all about, what more to that person being point out in that particular post or something. Some might just ignore it but some may care about it especially to the person.
Not all the time bystanders makes the situation even worse. In some cases, they are the reason why that person be able to speak out and be able to blurted out what she feel. Because of the concern and care to the person being cyber bullied, they help to find a solution to end that condition that makes the life of people who are in it, miserable.
Bystanders have their choice on what to do in times they witness a cyber bullying acts. It is in their hand if they will care or they will just ignore it. It is their decision if they will help that person or not. But whatever they do, they are not involve in the scene so we cannot blame them. Whatever they do, it is their own will. We cannot accuse them of anything because they are out of it. They are not guilty and so they can't be in jail.
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