(November 21, 2014 at 1:28 pm)MusicLovingAtheist Wrote: I just don't understand the mentality behind people who are all about demonizing school shooters. They're obviously some kids who are either deviant or just extremely disturbed. I just don't see what kind of ethics are behind acting so sanctimonious like you're so much better than a school shooter. So people go over seas and kill people all the time. People kill people in the electric chair, people kill each other at school. What's the difference in your eyes? I don't see a seamless ethic here on your part, people who hate school shooters. Eric (Dylan's friend) once said that "there is no such thing as good or evil, it's all relative to the observer".
I agree with you to an extent, since the killing overseas often involves children and killing innocent civilians, also school shootings have probably been, in my opinion, a good thing. If a single bullied person targets a specific bully.
More often than not though, it's highly probably school shootings are random and the person being bullied isn't even bullied, just mentally unstable and paranoid.
Even though a lot of people seemingly disagree with you on this forum, I highly doubt anyone sees it as such a black and white clear cut issue.
It would be illogical to think "YEHHHHH KILL THOSE FOREIGNERS OVERSEAS" But to also think that not one school shooter was simply a victim of bullying fighting back and that every single one was an evil person.
The two most famous school shootings that come to mind in my opinion though were Virginia Tech. The guy who did this was seemingly not bullied, just mentally unstable.
And then there was columbine where the two guys were bullied but they seemed to just target random people and I don't even know if many of the people killed even knew Eric of Dylan.
It's pretty rare actually that you find a school shooting that wasn't random and full of pointless deaths, but then you could say the same about a lot of wars.
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