(October 9, 2014 at 11:31 am)MusicLovingAtheist Wrote: 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 doubt that they respected them, either. And anyone who did respect them, lost any respect for them. Not that it mattered to them, seeing as they were now dead.
Dealing with bullies by going nuclear on everyone and then killing yourself seems like an awful solution to the problem. Especially when there were a number of simpler solutions at hand, each of which could have worked and none of which would have ended with them or anyone else dead. They could have "fired back" verbally, or even with their fists: most bullies will quickly stand down from a challenge. Doing this would've given them the grudging respect of others and a great deal of self-respect.
If they saw the world as being a savage, dog-eat-dog kind of place, then all they did was prove that they weren't tough enough to hang with society. If everyone is a selfish, me-first, fuck-everyone-else kind of person, then it seems that the Columbine shooters' primary achievement was ducking out from the race shortly after it started. No one respects a quitter.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
