Board Thread:Administration/@comment-24304936-20140603171416/@comment-24989630-20140605042252

Booboofinger wrote: SpunkySix wrote: As much as I feel for the victim, and I sincerely do, people need to realize that there is a bigger issue behind this story than one isolated incident. People blaming any sort of media for their actions is and always has been assanine, and it annoys me that so many have allowed knee-jerk reaction emotions to cloud their jugement so much that they're actually speaking out against what amounts to spooky campfire stories instead of using this as a lesson in the difference between fiction and reality.

This is why I think toning down Slender stories in any way in response to this event is totally wrong. It sends the exact opposite message that needs to be sent. It shows that people feel guilty for writing what should be harmless stories and in a sense DO blame them for what happened, or at least for what the family is dealing with. The family shouldn't be angry and upset with what are, in reality, unrelated stories being posted, they should be angry and upset with the people that STABBED THEIR FAMILY MEMBER.

Even with something like this. Scary stories get written about awful real life events all the time. Nobody is being forced to read them, and it has been made clear that they are totally made up past the event that they are based on. As long as nothing horribly disrespectful is being said, I don't see a problem with the concept. I see it as acceptance of what happened and an attempt to move on while also acknowledging reality rather than hiding from it. Heck, even if I personally was stabbed, I'd be totally fine with a creepypasta about it for that very reason. Good point, Spunky. The fact is that the family is greiving, which is totally understandable. They and "society" in general feel a need to lash out at someone, and I guess that in their perception, we just happen to be the easiest targets. Thank you. And to be clear, I don't blame the family for grieving. They have every right to, they deserve to, and it's only natural. It's the shifting of blame, and the "tone everything related to X fictional thing" response that follows that get to me in situations like this.