You know what really grinds my gears?: The moaning thread.

[MusicLovingAtheist]

I have a lot of respect for the columbine shooters though. They stood up to the people who made fun of them and disrespected them in a way I never would. All I can do is glare at people, flick them off, tell them to go kill themselves. They had guts, and I think it reflects on the society we live in more than the people who committed the crime itself.

But they also killed themselves in the end. Did they actually shoot every single person who made fun of them, or even any of them? Did they really settle any scores? Did they ruin the lives of only the people who made them miserable, or did they simply make a lot of otherwise innocent people suffer?

Think about their timelines: they lived short lives that were apparently full of angst and bitterness, they took extreme action that may have filled them with satisfaction and power for a very short interval, which they themselves cut short, ending their existence. It's really not much of a life. Most folks go through the angst and difficulties of adolescence; most overcome it, grow up, and build satisfying lives for themselves. I think they're much more deserving of respect.

Yeah, they got back at everyone. They made a statement, that if you fuck with someone, something will happen. I'm sure the ones who disrespected them didn't go around and joke about them after they did what they did. I respect them more than the people who disrespected them. I think it shows what kind of society we live in where people think they can get away with disrespecting someone else. The columbine shooters did what few people are willing to do, which is defend their honor as human being. Hats off to them. They obviously didn't want to live in this world anymore anyways.

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I hate people, and I will ignore anyone on this forum who doesn't show me the respect and understanding I deserve.

You deserve any of those?

You want people to understand you and yet... provide no basis for such understanding... or, rather, provide a basis for the understanding you don't want.

You want people to respect you and yet... you don't respect people. Your post that started this whole thing was one where you showed us all that you don't respect your teacher.
Why should I respect someone who doesn't respect teachers?

I don't respect my teacher? My teacher makes me angry. He knows i have trouble focusing and yet he treats it like it's not his problem when he is responsible for teaching me because that is what I am paying him to do.