opinion

People say the word gay or fag a lot in our school.  Many of these people are just joking around with their friends when they are saying this but some people feel discriminated against when they hear these words being used which can lead into suicidal thoughts.  Suicide doesn't solve anything it just leaves the people that care about you heartbroken.  I dont think we should use the words fag or gay because they are very hurtful words to some people.  An example of this was when Tyler Clementi a student at Rutgers University killed himself because his room mate Dharun Ravi put a camera in his room and streamed live video on to the internet of Clementi kissing a dude. I think that we should all be treated with respect and we should be able to keep things private that we don't want to be public.  It's such an invasion of privacy to do such a thing that Ravi did.  The fact that Tyler killed himself because of all this too should increase the punishment.  I think he deserves to serve several years in prison.  In our world today some people say words such as fag or gay and it doesn't take any meaning to them.  But when some people hear these words the get suicidal thoughts.  So we should stop throwing those words out there cause most of us don't see the real meaning behind them.