Kim Davis?

[God of Mr. Hanky]

I dunno - this guy does have serious anger problems, and venting such disturbing thoughts here is profoundly unwise, but I hate to see people going so hard on him because he does appear to be making efforts to deal with those problems. Of course he should be doing this in therapy instead of here, no argument on that point.

I can understand how a young man who feels very isolated and isn't able to get the help he needs, and I also know how some will try, but never find any professionals who are capable or willing to help them in any good way. When you are alone, bewildered by the world, and have the perception that the actions of others are destroying any chances you may ever have of survival or happiness, then it really can feel like they are doing worse violence against you than the disturbing acts which he describes. I felt that way while I was struggling to get a decent education, but then I never acted on such horrific fantasies. As I matured I became chronically depressed, but more sensisitized to violence, and then I realized that there could never be any justice when people commit this. I truly hate Dick Cheney, but the last thing I would want to do is to give him the martyr's crown for his country (whichever one that really is). I hope DFDM lives to understand, and before it's too late, that violence is no good revenge against the powerful, and that when you are small the only good recourse you have is to go on living as best as you can despite the evil which they've assaulted your life with. Survival is the best revenge!

I, along with many here, have had more than their share of the shit sandwich of life. I have had heartache like no one here knows. I am going through some issues with a seriously damaged person in my personal life. That said, it is quite one thing to show disdain for someone - especially someone who has made the news in a bad way - by saying you don't like them or their views, but to wish a person dead, to want to hear the crushing of their bones, that is a level of disturbance that is so epic, people need to view it as a red flag. 

It is time for people (not directed at any one person in particular) to start paying very close attention to the mindset of others on here. When individuals have that much hatred for people they don't even know and they state the horrific things that we have heard all over the forums for the last few weeks, then caution needs to be taken. No, I'm not going overboard with this. Clearly there is some very disturbed thinking and someone should be paying closer attention and not providing excuses for the thought pattern of such a person. Normal people don't go around thinking vile, abhorrent thoughts about other people and wishing they were dead, simply because they aren't liked.

Not saying you went overboard, and I really don't want to be critical, it's only that this dialogue brought to my attention how understanding (not blind sympathy) is as useful a defense as caution (know your enemy). I'm no authority on this matter, but then I've watched society slide down to a dangerous level of non-understanding, and it's no more safe for it. People who would go on violent rampages against people who they don't even know personally should not be coddled, but the fact that more of them are acting out their violent fantasies today is a sign that too many are not being helped before it's too late. 

Perhaps the problem is that web communications are somehow helping to alienate certain people more quickly and effectively than help them (that's just a guess, but it's a factor concurrent with the recent generation)?

I'm very sorry your life has been so difficult, and believe this - I know first-hand about many of life's difficulties, particularly heartache, mental and physical suffering.