Seething with anger, he posted a video on her Facebook page in which he read her letter aloud and provided counterpoint to her complaints. The video ended with a bang — nine of them, in fact! In a fury of digital destruction, the father emptied his handgun into his daughter’s laptop. Read more here.
But did his hollow points make a hollow point?
A few decades ago a frustrated father might have ripped his daughter’s princess phone out of the wall after discovering a nasty entry in her diary. The underlying issues seem to be the same. But these days, a family problem can be shared with the world in an instant, and all of us get to sit in judgment.
- Was there a better way for the father to get his point across?
- How do you think the father felt after doing this?
- How do you think the daughter reacted? How would you react?
- What does this say about the expectation of privacy on the internet (or in a personal diary, for that matter)?
- As an aside, what sort of message is the father sending his daughter by smoking throughout his video?