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Apathy: The Most Cold-Hearted Murderer Of Them All

September 7, 2007

During the past few days, there has been an increase in the number of posts on graduating U.P. student Cris Mendez, who allegedly died of hazing injuries during the initiation rites of a well-known fraternity. Most of the posts expressed indignation at how a fraternity can use violence to discern which individual deserved to be treated and called as a “brother” or “brod“. Many were dismayed at how the fraternity members are keeping quiet about the whole issue. And people are enraged at the doctor who had the gall to just leave Cris at Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC) and disappear, while the young man slowly died.

With all these emotional posts, it was a bit of a surprise to read a post written about the young man’s death that seemed too cold for comfort.

The blogger has limited access to her site because of the number of commenters who expressed dismay at what she wrote:

the access to the previous post is now limited because there are people who keep on reading it, end up getting hurt and blame me. As if I forced them to read it. And so just so there would not be any temptation to read it, I have limited people’s access to it.

Well, it’s her right to do so. If she doesn’t want to be bothered by those whom she hurt with what she wrote, she’s entitled to put a limited access on her posts. So for now, only a few people have seen what she wrote that hurt some of those who were able to read it, which are actually friends or acquaintances of Cris Mendez.

What she didn’t know is that I have a copy of that post.

But since I do not intend that a mob go after her and wreak havoc to her site, I choose not to post the article. Not even snippets or a link to her site. There’s just too much hurt going around and I do not want to add to it. However, I want to say what I think about what she wrote. And since, I don’t think she’s open to such exchange of ideas (when actually she accuses her commenters for being close-minded on the issue of Cris Mendez but she, herself, does not want to read what they think of her post), I’ll just post my rant here.

In summary, she wrote (in Filipino) that she wasn’t at all affected by Cris Mendez’ death since she doesn’t know him that much and that she didn’t feel the impact of his existence in her life (they’re batchmates, though). She felt only a loss for a potential that he had. She felt no pity, though. Nor anger at what the fraternity members did to him.

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Written by Prudence · Filed Under News, Personal 

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