User blog comment:PlantyThePottedPlant/Random Topic Blogging III: Blog Harder/@comment-4353345-20140124005611/@comment-4123215-20140125215337

He should have to pay some sort of consequence, but he's a dumb teenager. You don't automatically go from ignorance to intelligence in one year. There are some smart teenagers, but common sense only dictates how severe your mistakes will be.

Yes, he did a bad thing, but who's not to say OTHER celebrities we all admire didn't do bad things? John Lennon was abusive and controlling, so was Gene Kelly, and Sean Penn, but we don't criticize them so harshly because we enjoy their work. That's a terrible mentality, especially since Justin, who had his youth learning curve f*cked by stardom, is barely out of youth.

He's not Chris Brown, he didn't intentionally hurt somone, he did a stupid thing because he thought it was fun and he thought nobody would get hurt, because the only people who get hurt from stuff like this are people on the news. It's not him deliberately spiting people, it's just Class A ignorance.

He deserves some sort of punishment, but he's not a "Terrible person", just an ignorant and ill informed one.