Yes, and if these guys were in fact bytanders and/or live-tweeting the crime, they should be arrested. I've said that about a dozen times in foll0w-up comments.

I agree with everything you wrote here. And for the record, I cannot bear to watch a single second of torture porn movies like "Hostel" or "Human Centipede." Everybody on this site seems to think I was defending these boys or what they said. I was not. I was merely trying to point out that we didn't yet know all the…

Hahahaha. Perfect.

I appreciate that.

Absolutely, and I missed that as well. Makes the situation entirely different. They should all be prosecuted.

Good point.

So in other words, all those dead baby jokes that circulate on elementary school playgrounds are the result of dead baby culture?

I never said nor implied "boys will be boys." If anything, my point was "people will be people," and people often use humor to deal with terrible events. And that we shouldn't assume these boys had anything to do with the rape simply because they were joking about it, no matter how heinous we (and I'm including myself…

Thank you. Exactly my point.

I just love the public lynching I've received on this site. In the future, I'll know that I'm simply not permitted to make any comment on any story involving rape. Even though I'm the most liberal, feminist, pro-woman gay man any of you will ever encounter, I still have a penis, and therefore I'm a misogynist and a…

And you're a Klansman. (Absurd, you say? No more so than you calling me a rape apologist.)

God bless you for being literally the only commenter on this site to understand my point, rather than flying into an irrational rage and assuming that I'm a misogynist (or worse).

Actually, I did read online jokes about Newtown immediately afterwards. They were horrifying to me, just as the comments in this video were. But I didn't assume the people making the Netwown jokes were child murderers, just as I didn't assume the boys in the video were rapists.

That's not what I wrote, and you know it.

No, I just don't buy that some jokes are OK but other jokes aren't. As a comedian, I can tell you with certainty that nearly every joke you can think of is based on tragedy. In any joke, someone is always the victim. That's why context is key.

Because so many commenters seem to know for a fact that main speaker in this video was actually present during the rape and was the one who live-tweeted the attack as it was happening (none of which is mentioned in the article above), my original comment becomes nullified. He should be prosecuted to the fullest extent…

Yeah, as expected, you've missed my point entirely. My friends and I would never have a conversation such as this one. But we have had conversations and made jokes, often about our own tragic experiences, that some would find objectionable or offensive. The point is, what you say in jest when you're in your own home…

I keep reading similar comments to yours, but I have yet to see a single bit of evidence. How do we know he's one of the ones who live-tweeted the incident or "was probably present or saw photos?" We don't. We don't know who this kid is or what is role was, if he even had one.