@@badumtss4032 hmm, sounds like the count of monte cristo to me. Got lucky and met a scholar in prison, took the opportunity to learn from said scholar including knowledge of hidden treasure. And everything became history. Well, the books didn’t have such a good ending as the movie with Superman in it.
First story: Lets see, the teachers at his school were monsters to him, the students in his classes were monsters to him, extended family, family friends, and well...essentially the entire town moved in the same manner and fashion, ergo, none of them are innocent, they're all guilty.
@@theholymetaknight6170 While that is true there's also the possibility that the story was way worse than OP is making it seem like. EDIT: Minor spelling.
@@nobodyimportant9603 do you think they would grown up to be good people if they were raised by people who allow known rapists power and blame the victim outcasting them
The OP said he told the truth in his report, so the factory would probably of closed whoever did the inspection. He just happened to be in a position to enjoy it.
I fail to see how anyone in that first story is "innocent" The entire town knew what happened, they simply didn't care. Just because they were not ACTIVELY malicious, does not mean they are not guilty. A woman drank herself to death, and nobody cared that she was raped by "pillars of the community" and went along with blaming her for being a victim. And made a child's life absolute shit because nobody had any god damn integrity. He's no super villain, he's a god damn hero. And i've seen other comments condemning him for "But half the town wasn't aware" it's clearly stated it's a small rural religious town. There are no secrets in those towns. Everyone was compliant, outside of maybe the others who were the target of their malice but they were likely the first ones to bail when shit hit the fan. And very likely have much better lives because of it.
And children that weren't even born when he was there? Now maybe don't have food to eat, because everyone lost there jobs? I get what you are saying, but yes there were innocent people in the crossfire. He was cruel to them
Lucinda botha True but they would have most likely been raised to regard people in his situation the same way. By having this occur it would make things harder for them BUT maybe it would teach the younger generation to treat everyone with respect.
To be fair, the town did most of the work on their own, choosing nepotism and creating a work environment where subordinates are expected to be yes-men is not the best way to run any kind of operation. You can be pretty certain anyone else doing the same job would've shut it down too.
@@SH-qs7ee I feel like that town probably had a factory where they had to pray every day before starting their work schedule. lol "Pray to Jesus, everyone!"
In the first story, keep in mind this was a very small town, probably only a couple hundred people. In a town like that, everybody knows everybody else. Its not just the teachers and the uncle that gave OP a hard time, it was the entire town itself. The Sherif was probably also a part of it since OP's uncle was never charged. It wasn't just like 20 people, it was the entire town, and the fact that the factory had those issues should show that this permeated the entire town
Yup. I've been to that kind of town. The people are generally of one mind, in some cases they're real friendly folks, may be insular but are accepting of people who aren't just like they are. In some cases, they're just a big pack of assholes, and it's amazing when you realize it's not just a few "bad apples" it's basically everyone there.
@@thiccpotato9250 Mormons hate anyone who question them, or say they disagree with them. They also will guilt you and try and manipulate you into joining their cult. I know I lived in Utah with my wife for almost a year. Everyone I disagreed with treated me like I was the devil himself. Good thing I never told them I was atheist. I had to leave because how close mined the whole state was. I couldn't stand people telling me people like me and people like my gay friends were evil, or just stupid.
GameMasterCoolDudeGuy 1) “close-minded” or “close minded” not “close mined” 2) yeah. Religion isn’t a valid excuse to act hatefully. It sure as *hell* isn’t a valid excuse for Christians, since Jesus was trying to teach us to love one another and be kind to one another. As for the other major world religions... hmm... let’s see... dunno about Judaism, but they probably aren’t bad, if only because they’ve been on the receiving end for so long. Buddhism... probably doesn’t care. Hinduism... don’t know, but my gut says “why the heck would they?” Islam... umm... 1) dunno 2) not touching that 3) can’t be much worse than the worst of the Christians.
u re aware that the "revenge was probably 20years after he went to school soo when children get stabbed and abused because of him as he claims its not great
In a town like the one in the first story, no one is an innocent bystander. Those that don't actively make the victim's life miserable support the ones that do. A town that supports sexual abuse and alienates the victims is a town that deserves no mercy.
So the children weren't innocent? The ones being abused weren't innocent? The ones who had absolutely NOTHING to do with OP or his mother are all equally to blame? That's the same logic War Criminals use to burn down an entire village just because a few enemy combatants are hiding there. This is just continuing the cycle of hate. Now OP was just doing his job, so he can't take the entire blame, but in any other circumstance he would be as bad as anyone in the town, because instead of choosing to end the suffering right there, he chose to continue it. He did everything wrong.
@@ObjectsInMotion He did nothing wrong. They fucked themselves long before he got there. He just closed a factory. Not his fault the town was too corrupt to find a way to survive without it.
@@ObjectsInMotion pretty much ye, why the fuck do people bring up statements like "oh the children were innocent", like why would i feel mercy for kids of whom parents are literal garbage.
Let’s say their are some innocent just for the sake of arguments he need to close 1 out of 3 factories their are some innocent people who worked the the other 2 and if he is telling the truth then that factory would have closed anyway because it was horrible run
@@joimumu No, it was a small religious town run by the corrupt church. Everyone knew, everyone was complicit. Even the police. The uncle was never charged despite everyone knowing he raped OP's mother. It's disgusting. Religious cults in small towns rule them all with an iron fist.
The town in that first story was far from innocent, they ignored what happened to his mother, and then turned a blind eye or participated in what happened to him, they got exactly what was coming to them.
7:10 innocent? you've never lived in a small town have you? at the end of the video you mention something about it only being 20-50 people... there's the proof you've no idea what it's like being in a small town. No it's not just 20 to 50 people. It's the whole bloody town. There *might* be a small handfull who tried to stand up for him.... but i doubt it. More than likely they turned their noses up at him just like everyone else did.
And don't forget that those shitty adults would raise shitty children who would replace their parents in that town, and the cycle will repeat the next time someone was in OP's position. No one was innocent
I imagine there were a lot of people who didn't like what was happening to him but kept quiet because they didn't want it happening to them. And that is at LEAST as bad as what the instigators were doing. Worse. They actually knew better and did nothing.
TRUTH! And as you get older, if you haven't been corrupted to the town, you realize just how shitty those people are. Hell, it's very likely those people (if it's anything like the small town I grew up in) all talk mad shit about EACH OTHER as well. Small town people are, genuinely, some of the vilest human beings I've ever come across.
It's not justified at all, some religious communities are assholes, they don't deserve to have their lives destroyed because of it. Not to mention all the later children who were born into a town full of poverty and domestic violence all because of him. He's disgusting, he deserves a lot worse than what he got at their hands
Well, anger left to stew for years is an ugly thing,Gemini. And you DON'T treat people like this "religious" town treat him like that. I do agree, though, that it shouldn't have happened like that.
@@omkarsangvikar4166 Cyberpunk 2077 E3 Jhonny Silverhand aka Keanu Reeves in the final moments of the trailer saying "wake the f*** up samurai, we have a city to burn. "
@@sheshaggaerlan3506 ah yes he was in the top cinematic games coming in this or next year, this reminds me I must go watch game play of previous one. Cause I'm a poor player. Thanks though you're the boss
The fact that sexually abusive priests (that people supported and ignored) ran the town was enough for the town to be justified to be destroyed. He probably saved a lot of people as well, considering the uncle raped his niece, who knew what he was capable of and did. This was completely warranted. Considering it was a small town I doubt there was any people who would be considered “innocent” in this situation. Supporting a rapist for years, driving the victim to suicide, then bullying their kid relentless because his mom was *raped* is absolutely horrible and these people deserved to have their livelihood destroyed. What a absolutely disgusting town. Edit: also, it’s not like he blew it up, he took away jobs from people who were clearly abusing their positions of power.
@@MekhiTheOne I would believe it if it was Mormons, and the story happened a decade or two ago, with OP being in his mid-40's. Given that he would thusly be born between 1971 and 1975, incestual sexual abuse happening in a small Mormon community in Utah or Idaho would be very believable, and a factory outsourced to China between 1984 and 2005 would likewise. In short, the older OP is, the more this story is likely.
All of that would be too easy for an Uncle/Daddy... Treat him like a religious person would a witch... tie him to a stake, burn him, and piss on the ashes. Bonus points if you can get the eyes. Double bonus points if you can get the nose hole. Basic points for the skull's scorched choppers.
Although the outcome caught people in the crossfire that should’ve got judgement (not the people in social circle just normal people) he still did the job.
@@triplestripe7071 The town was completely comprised of the social circle. Deeply religious internal communities have an "everyone knows everyone" vibe that isn't just for show. If someone wasn't actively participating, they were allowing the abuse to go on and/or encouraging it to happen. The only innocents caught in that crossfire are the few too young to comprehend anything that was happening.
There would have to be a little less than a couple hundred people in the town total, plus, the story is fake, I’ve run fact checks on this particular post and nothing shows up in any record or news paper. Still good story.
How my mind was running after the first story: OP you ruined people's lives and jobs and you're laughing. You destroyed the town and you're laughing. OP: I know!.........How about another joke Murray?!
@@Yue797 You're guilty for not preventing Child labor for the product you own and for contributing to capitalism which help to create and maintain this community of heathens. I expect you to write a farewell letter shortly. See, the thing is we are all bystanders to a lot of injustice and that is okay for the most part because we are only human and we make mistakes. A hero is someone who can push through their fear and thwart injustice. They are relentless in their pursuit and will never settle for anything less than true justice. The only true heroes are those who never give in to fear and are currently fighting all injustice in this world. I say almost nobody matches the definition of true hero because it is perfection that cannot be obtained as we are humans therefore imperfect. You can't blame people for experiencing fear and caving to it. Rape victims in themselves would then be an accomplice to their own rape if they stay silent (prevent justice) due to this very thing we call fear (they are too afraid to speak up which is perfectly understandable). I think OP was wrong for doing this. True justice would have brought about restoration, not destruction and decay. He isn't a hero but he victim and now a villain.
@@anonymouscommentor411 I would put OP as protagonist, that doesnt necessarily make him the good guy, it just makes him the central character of the story
I applaud the person, who destroy this entire self-righteous town just for the sweet sweet taste of revenge, if I ever meet this guy , I'd like to buy him a beer,
1st story describes be. I live in a christian town and i am what they call a sinner. (dont believe in any god) I would burn the church down if i could to get back at them. Heck even the local cafes wouldnt serve me.
17:50 Ma boy. Let me explain this to you. There were 3 factories. It is his job to stop bad employees and shut down bad factories. The thing that actually happened would have happened even if it was another person doing it. It was just an added bonus, from God, that he got revenge while doing his job. It sound evil because it was harsh justice and because he described what happened. He never did anything wrong as any other person with his job would check over the factory and do their job by shutting it down. The only fault in him is that he gave them false hope. Nothing else is wrong.
Exactly. He didn't make a biased decision when he could make an unbiased one, instead he just made an unbiased decision when they expected him to make a biased one.
It's ProRevenge. He didn't break the law. Everything he did was 100% legal and he was 100% doing his job... just sometimes doing your job is a pleasure.
He technically broke the law, I believe, since he used a corporate position to get revenge on a specific person and not evaluating the town based on merit, so it could be considered targeting and market manipulation MAYBE. I'm not sure about the exact specifics.
Let's just say it's pro revenge on a NUCLEAR scale. It was done while doing his job. Just so happened that it was so devastating it killed the whole town.
@Jakub Rogacz but deathnote wasnt focused on that... light only killed criminals, and corrupt people, which are basicly uncaught criminals... PS: he became a shinigami at the end...
@@crustybomb115 Well I am a bit for light's brand of morality actually in some cases. And all in all more responsibility for some gender-priviliged people (three guesses and no it's not men I talk about). P.S We don't know if he did indeed but that's what I thought too. Do you know shinigami eat only apples ? P.S.S I dunno guy in story did same as Light starting out by setting out to punish criminals ending with not caring with crossfire victims. By the way would you say people would find Yagami in reall world if it were true ? On a side there could be many more books with more interesting effects.
The hatred I feel for the people of that town, especially the uncle and his cronies, says no; OP didn't go overboard. And I'm glad that the complicit cesspit of a town is suffering for everything they've done. Sadly, I doubt the moral vacuum they represent hasn't gone on to ruin lives everywhere else their filth has spread.
Just imagine now, the seas are forming constant tsunamis, all volcanoes start to erupt everywhere, the sky is full of ash, the moon is crumbling to pieces and crashing towards the earth but all you can hear is the deafening sound of the Wii music
When appearances matter more than substance, you know "what" has its hand in the mix. If only those who follow any religion realized how many people they turn away. We can all detect hypocrisy if there is a shred of self-honesty in ourselves to begin with. And weren't the hypocrites and the lukewarm the two most reviled in the Bible?
First story did NOT go too far, and I'll tell ya why. If he lived in one of those towns where "everyone knows everyone" like it seems he does, especially if it's a religious town. EVERYONE knew he was being treated the way he did. Even those who didnt do anything to him or mock him knew. And NO ONE did a single thing to help him. Whether you rape someone, or stand by and watch someone be raped, you're just as guilty. OP did right by shutting down the plant. No one could have foreseen it would turn into a drug town ruin lives in that way until after the fact. OP, if you read this. I'm sorry about your mom... If you arent completely turned off by whatever religion you were a part of, I hope you believe shes in a better place and that someday you can be together again. Best of luck.
Fallen Sniper I agree with most of what you said, but being just as guilty for being a bystander to rape? Hell no. Consider the fact that some of them were to afraid to oppose the town, in fear of being harassing as well. Even if they simply let it slide because they didn’t care, that’s not nearly as bad as actually raping someone
@@ABagOfPotatoes well acording to law if you watch a crime and lie about you can also be blamed for it. So yeah they would be acused of at least obstruction of justice if it wasn't a corrupted town.
Yeah, as stated some bystanders probably didn't lift a finger for fear of becoming outcasts themselves. But for something so ingrained in the community's mind.. nothing but erasing the local seat of power (here, the factory) will do.
@@pikapanda577 The radiation left the cities after only a few decades. Cities with blown reactors, like Chernobyl, have more long-lasting radiation that will take centuries to dissipate.
Just found this video today, I belive this quote is very fitting for the first story. "there is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt" -WH40k Dawn of war The OP pretty much ordered an exterminatus on the town
Exactly! Even if not everyone directly bullied him, they still stood by and did nothing for him/her or their mother, AND they contributed to the environment that was hostile to the poster and their family in the first place, the environment that enabled the bullies and the rapists to have done what they did, and the one that led to the mother drinking herself to death. They are not innocent, they are not un-responsible. Silence is complicity. Sorry not sorry.
@@romanr.301 Eh, it depends. I'm sure there were a lot of people in that town who didn't even know OP existed, so they couldn't have helped if they wanted to. If they didn't know him at all, then they were innocent, and didn't deserve to be dragged into his revenge. However, if it's one of those towns that's small enough for everyone to know everyone, then yeah, not even trying to do something to help is sad.
Bobina Bobson - If this entire town’s survival depended on just one factory, and everyone knew the church leaders, then I’m pretty sure the town was small enough for everyone to know each other, for everyone to have ignored the mother’s struggle, and for everyone to have ignored, or participated in, this guy’s bullying.
If they all have a singular church leader, an official is known for having an affair with his "seductress" sister, and there's a kid that came out of that mess, there's no doubt in my mind everyone heard about it and did nothing to stop what was happening.
Rslash has slowly changed, day-by-day, over the span of about 2 years, but it's so wild to listen back to his old videos to see just how much he's changed. It's pretty cool to be able to listen to a creator's style change.
The first guy's story... i really wanna know who he is and give him a 10 minute long hug. I never felt that bad for anyone other than a cat who i loved dearly.
@@clapped1542 Well, it will also improve the lives of families there in the future should they choose to move away, and prevent the complete and utter ruining of other lives within the community that would go unnoticed, just like his own. Besides, just as many people would be fired no matter which factory was selected for removal.
But in this scenario, bystanders are NOT innocent AT ALL. Any bystanders in this situation deserve to have their lives destroyed. They are terrible people.
@@nuttynutsnutstache Ok, it is said in the story and was mentioned by various people in comments several times. The factory was on the list of 3. Some would have suffered anyway, no matter what OP did. And their innocent children too. So here is the choice: 1. hurt people who mistreated him as a kid by doing an appropriate thing a responsible employee had to do by closing a factory that commits frauds and damages the economy, or 2. help them out with their misconducts and hurt people who did not do anything to OP, as well as their innocent children. What would you choose?
I have to say, that first story is probably my favorite reddit story, period. Its like that "Be careful who you call ugly in middle school" meme x1000.
While it was much more disgusting than calling someone ugly, the thought does apply here too. The cult town was quite ugly though, at least on the inside.
I really don't think the first guy went to far, you say there were innocent people caught in it, but most were probably the kids of the families that were there and they would have been raised to act exactly the same, the entire town was just messed up, I sort of feel bad about the effect, but it was deserved
Exactly. That town gave off very "Jonestown" vibes. Places like that, EVERYONE is corrupt. Nobody is truly innocent. Even with kids, they are, like you said, to be raised the same way. Full of prejudice and hate. Towns like that have no chance of ever recovering or becoming something better. The bad blood has seeped to deep into the ground.
Yeah and it's not like he killed anyone. He just did his job. Nothing wrong with that. Also... at some point people are responsible for their own lives. This guy didn't become an abusive alcoholic or delinquent, despite having every excuse in the book. He got away from that going nowhere town, got therapy and helped himself heal. The people who lost their jobs could leave. They could move to places that have jobs and start their lives over. That's a possibility.
Yup, all those kindergartners were so guilty. So happy all those women got hired by there husbands. Hey, maybe the abortion rate went up too. Fuck that 3rd grade. He deserves to be abused because people didn't like me. Wah wah wah
The entire town was complicit. Complicit in branding OP's Mom with a "Scarlet Letter" and complicit in allowing a child to endure 18 years of what amounted to torture. Not one person stepped up for them. What kind of teacher is so apathetic that they allow this ongoing bs to occur from grade school through high school. I don't think any of them were innocent. They deserved what they got. The ones who didn't leave for greener pastures after the factory being closed down are just plain stupid. Of it takes a village to raise a child, then the village got its just desserts.
I'm pretty sure that in that first story, there WERE no innocent bystanders. They're lucky nobody looked back on the destruction from afar, they'd be turned into a pillar of salt.
None of us is innocent in life, but that doesn't mean they deserved to have their lives destroyed. The increases in domestic abuse and poverty probably affected many of the kids who had to grow up later in that town. His actions screwed over generations of people, he retroactively earned their treatment of him. He deserves a lot worse
The guy who shut down the factory did nothing wrong. The town was a cess pool of sexual abuse. No one was innocent. The alcohol and drugs were likely there. Domestic abuse was there too. I've seen it before. He simply sent them scrabbling out of their hiding places into the harsh day light of truth.
So the children weren't innocent? The ones being abused weren't innocent? The ones who had absolutely NOTHING to do with OP or his mother are all equally to blame? That's the same logic War Criminals use to burn down an entire village just because a few enemy combatants are hiding there. This is just continuing the cycle of hate. Now OP was just doing his job, so he can't take the entire blame, but in any other circumstance he would be as bad as anyone in the town, because instead of choosing to end the suffering right there, he chose to continue it. He did everything wrong.
@@ObjectsInMotion He did nothing wrong. They fucked themselves long before he got there. He just closed a factory. Not his fault the town was too corrupt to find a way to survive without it.
@@mansurislamov9595 I am currently working on a story that involves something like this, but my first book, which is published on Amazon Kindle, is all about revenge, justice and retribution. However, my book is getting written, so I can get rid of any inconsistencies, spelling and grammar errors. But the essentials are still the same, a young man comes back to the States after twenty years to get revenge for the death of his parents. It's an homage to martial arts and action films.
That first story... As a Christian myself, I can honestly say this is how/why atheists are made. This is a complete perversion of what God and Christianity is about, and what it's supposed to be, just like the story of the family who disowned their atheist son, or the mother who was going to kill her son for liking D&D. These people distort and ruin God's message of love and forgiveness. And they are what many people from the outset see when they look in: uppity people who make sure they appear "proper" but in actually they're bigger scum than the "sinners"(they forget we're all sinners) they despise and glare down their noses at
A quote from DC Talk, "The greatest cause of atheism in the world today is Christians. Who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, but deny him by their lifestyle. *That* is what a believing world simply finds unbelievable."
To me you replace Christian with Catholic and you're spot on. Catholics are the cult like, kiddie fiddlers and those that shun you unless you're one of them.
Did you hear about the huge baptist abuse scandal in Texas? It’s not just Catholics. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article/Southern-Baptist-sexual-abuse-spreads-as-leaders-13588038.php
@@MV60 Catholicism is all about the pointless outward displays but on the inside is more corrupt than most of the "godless"(as they would put it) atheists you'll meet. And by the sounds of these posts 2 out of the 3 of them likely were Catholic, I just said Christian because I myself am a Christian and thus despise what people do
"Hey, now that we took the work we were supposed to do, made you do, and stole it saying you didn't do any in order to make you fail, give us the report we need so we don't fail" ....reminds me of Guardians of the Galaxy "I have.. PART.. of a plan" "How much of a plan?" "11%"
Smells like brimstone and smoke from that dude burning the village to the ground also you get a promotion because you’re holy since you donated to some peta movement (note peta = People Eating Tasty Animals).
"And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."
I stand corrected. However, the passage in question does not appear in some of the versions of the Bible. You would not believe the INSANE amount of variations different publishings have.
@@johnschroeder163 You couldn’t be more right. In any case, it appears in the KJV, ESV, YLT and NASB among others, the latter two being directly translated from the original Hebrew manuscripts, so it’s legit. Publications that had it removed it might’ve been under the same judgemental mindset as the town.
Just saying, that first one reminds me of Silent Hill. Child who is seen as the outcast, bullied and abused, coming around and taking revenge, bringing down the entire town.
@Visiionz Strapz An extremely poorly adapted movie of a well known horror franchise. It's a passable horror flick at best. As an adaption, it's terrible. You'd be better off playing the older games yourself. (1-4)
This is why I even as a Christian don't want to be apart of small town, "Christian" towns like OP's are one step away from "The lottery" by Shirley Jackson.
@@hatsjer "If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for them to have millstones tied around their necks and be dropped into the sea."
Trust me, that sort of atmosphere only continues to breed more evil acts. He did that town a great service by destroying it. They dug their own graves.
Considering the town factory was run based on "holiness" rather than skill or merit, I'd say even a non-revenge person full of empathy would have closed the factory... just written a different story about it.
Yep, which is why I have no issue with it. If they were fabricating stuff to get the town Factory shutdown then yeah I would have an issue but they didn't. It's beyond obvious that he was biased though, it makes you wonder how legitimate the mistakes he was writing them up for tbh though. He did say after all that he "Polished them" and made it look worse than they were.
@@jvhx711 problem is that this town tried to mentally shatter an innocent boy and drove his raped mother to drinking to death. They deserved all they got and the human garbage that encompassed their cult like society should have been stopped anyway.
@@whoopingmuffin9700 Indeed, and I'd also add that they did all of that to him and his mother based on their interpretation of "holiness" and "decency", which is even worse. They deserved everything that happened to them, any embellishment added to his report pales in comparison to their bullshit.
Unfortunately, they seem to be pretty common; I once lived in a small town where they ran a family out. The reason why? She reported the school principal after he smacked her 7 yr son across the face with a metal relay baton, because the boy dropped it during training.
One of my dream cars is the Dodge Charger Hellcat, a very similar vehicle, and I swear to god had that happened to me my revenge story would have been on r/nuclearrevenge
i have mix feelings about it I lived in a shitty town that didn't like me for just moving there my revenge was getting out of there and being happy. but it is interesting that kind of revenge..
It wasn't just those people who made his life miserable, it was the culture of the town. No one was innocent because they all contributed to that and a good number of them could most likely see how toxic and problematic it was, but did nothing to try to change it.
@@sergeantassassin3425 So isn't actually better to force everybody in town to end this vicious circle by destroying it completely? I know it's harsh but little towns like that never evolve unless something huge happens to them and meanwhile there are a shit ton of silenced victims like OP and his mother just stuck in there, suffering.
@@lilyl3470 Not saying the town shouldn't have undergone its cleanse. Just saying that I'm sorry that innocents had to suffer for the sins of others. It's sometimes a necessary part of permanent change, though, so I understand.
@@rickya9206 I reiterate: *children* . What exactly do you expect a 4-year old or a 16-month old to do? I guarantee you that people who did NOTHING wrong got hurt by this. Again, I understand that collateral is sometimes unavoidable, but to say that there were "no innocents" involved is bullshit rhetoric that allows morons to color the situation in black and white, as opposed to the shades of grey it truly is.
I just watched this and thought I should comment. You haven't really lived in a REAAAALLLLYYYY small town before. I grew up in a town of 800 people that were dependent on one factory. My graduating class in the mid-90s was like 95 kids. Now it's far less since our factory closed. (I moved away after high school, most motivated people do) In a town like that, there are no innocent bystanders. There are bystanders, sure, but in a way, I respect them less than those that sorta, kinda, join in. I never respected my town and made that abundantly clear. I also had a habit of collecting friends who were picked on. I was shielded from much of the BS because my father was a well-respected businessman and we were on the upper end of the socioeconomic strata of the town. So, it sounds like no one backed this guy, ever. The more religious the town, the worst this is when you get down to the "everybody knows each other" population levels. These groups don't really walk the walk, they just use it to control. I knew two girls in school that were Jewish only because my sister knew it. They were much younger than me so I would never have found out on my own and they only trusted my sister on it because she was an even bigger IDGAF girl than I was. These two girls hid it their entire time in that town because they knew they would be excluded from so much because they weren't Christian. (It helps their father was Irish Catholic and so they had an Irish last name) I always hear stories like this and snort when I hear they descend into drugs and abuse. Guess they aren't really that religious after all.