(December 19, 2012 at 9:15 pm)Lion IRC Wrote: Me too.
And while I'm waiting, how about a bit of good old-fashioned water cooler chat between a few concerned humans who communicate via the internet?
Thats what youre doing in real life isnt it?
Imagine if I told my wife... nope, sorry. I dont want to discuss it with you until I get more facts from the police and authorities.
A guy over at Reasonable Faith Forum was saying - lets not get into any heavy social/political discussion about it - it's too tragic, we dont have all the facts, these are peoples children, dont use this as the basis of a...call to action, pro/anti, I told you so, type argument.
It seems to me that we already have the facts. And that we OUGHT to be discussing it precisely because they ARE someones children.
Look I didn`t mean that there shouldnt be any discusions.
BUT!
First thing I noticed monday and tuesday and today in the morning where newspaper and weekjournal headlineslike:
Psychokiller, Psycho this and psycho that.
And worst of all, I read in one weird article, "that because he shot himself, he was aware of the consequences of his actions, and therefor not criminaly insane."
And I am sick of it, and sick of this kind of portrait of the offender.
As soon as there is a massacre like this or any other crime in which a mentaly unhealthy person is involved, every single newspaper journalist and a enormous load of bloggers suddently turn into experts on psychology.
I dont know his medical record, all I know, and probably what most of the public knows, are rumors about what his mother told her friend about her son - which is not enought to draw reasonable conclusions - certainly not for non professionals.
This doesn`t mean that one cannot debate on the basis of assumptions.
But one cannot draw any factual conclusions.
