For every person who supposedly goes on a rampage like this because of where he's from, how he's raised, his poverty-stricken background, what pills he took, something he learned in school, or whatever attempt is made to put a cause to the effect, there are thousands of other people who endured the same influences and didn't go around killing a bunch of people.
In Alan Moore's Batman comic "The Killing Joke," the Joker tries to explain his own miserable history, and that's why he does what he does.
Batman responds, "Maybe ordinary people don't always crack. Maybe there isn't any need to crawl under a rock with all the other slimey things when trouble hits.
"Maybe it was just you, all the time."
Current Events » in reply to You, I'm sure, will find whatever simplistic explanation that fits your worldview
Yeti's right. You can't rationalize crazy.
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- My feelings about the VT Shooter.
- re: blaming the world
- Contributing factors
- This is a person....
- I just wrote MSNBC
- re: I just wrote MSNBC
- I'm with Lindy on this one.
- and expect a full length movie on this one... give it 4 to 8 years (n/t)
- The guy is dead. And sticking one's head in the sand won't help.
- We all know the name of the shooter. But we know nothing of the victims.
- Copycats are all over now....36 California Schools under Lockdown
- You really think that was NBC's motivation?
- Starts in a common manner.
- re: My feelings exactly
- re: My feelings exactly - not entirely, ER.
- The dating world
- re: The dating world - beyond the dating world.
- Warning signs
- re: Warning signs
- Police are getting a bum rap.
- re: Warning signs
- Yes. Imagine letting a schitzo with a hatred of the rich and rich kids in particular, into a college setting.
- Warning signs
- re: The dating world - beyond the dating world.
- The dating world
- re: My feelings exactly - not entirely, ER.
