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

[MusicLovingAtheist]

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.

Disrespecting someone who "quits" is despicable. If someone has the guts to end their own life, then as far as I'm concerned that is validation of their struggle. They made a final solution which I wish no one would make. It saddens me to see someone die, but when a person kill their self and they are disrespected, then - words can't even describe - how lowly a person they are. All the people who I have met in my life who have killed their self, I will always have the deepest respect for.

---

It disgusts me how respect works like currency in this world.