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Do you feel like it is fair to bully a teenager who is pregnant?

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She was just a girl, a heartbeat in bloom,

Then the screen caught fire, and she fell to the gloom.

They called her a slut, a fool, a stain—

Each post like a bullet, each comment a chain.

On Twitter they jeered, said she was trash,

Her future a joke, her dreams turned to ash.

Good girl, they spat, as if it was a curse,

Each word like a wound, each glance so much worse.

She folds in on herself, hiding the pain,

But the world forgot, she’s more than their stain.

Beneath all their venom, a flame still burns—

She’s more than the shadow that their hatred returns.

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  • veil_of_ignorance

    The poem asks exactly the right ethical question: is bullying fair? The answer clarifies if you imagine the veil of ignorance, if you didn't know which role you'd play, would fairness permit the cascade? The poem's real insight is that a vulnerable person's circumstances became ammunition. Fairness demands we ask: what do we owe to people whose situations we don't control?

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