(November 23, 2014 at 2:13 pm)Beccs Wrote:(November 21, 2014 at 1:28 pm)MusicLovingAtheist Wrote: I just don't understand the mentality behind people who are all about demonizing school shooters. They're obviously some kids who are either deviant or just extremely disturbed. I just don't see what kind of ethics are behind acting so sanctimonious like you're so much better than a school shooter. So people go over seas and kill people all the time. People kill people in the electric chair, people kill each other at school. What's the difference in your eyes? I don't see a seamless ethic here on your part, people who hate school shooters. Eric (Dylan's friend) once said that "there is no such thing as good or evil, it's all relative to the observer".
I have never gone up to someone and killed them.
By that simple fact I'm better than the pieces of shit that go on killing sprees.
Um I can understand the emotional reaction to an act of violence that affects you and or your family or friends. Without agreeing with the OP all I have said is that to REDUCE these types of events it is better to understand the CONDITIONS that lead to those events from a psychological or mental illness point of view. By understanding something, you are not excusing it, but by understanding it, you can then work to reduce those things.
I can say form myself growing up, not understanding my own sensitivity combined with my parents having an authoritarian "boys don't cry" and being dorky and never fitting in, and being bullied, I did a lot of destructive things. Now I survived it and grew out of it, but it did not help that most parents are not taught that their kids are not clones of them, and every kid is an individual. But because social memes can lead a parent to verbally abuse or strike their kid, while that type of fear based mentality can seem to work, other kids can internalize that abuse and act out without realizing it.
No the OP should not make anything like a killing spree seem acceptable. But there still is a psychology behind it and all crimes for that matter. You don't study those things to justify them, you study those things to reduce the conditions that might lead to those things.
