(April 18, 2017 at 12:18 pm)dyresand Wrote: The shooter killed himself in Eerie Pennsylvania.
on a side not a lot of people are actually killing themselves rather than going to jail
it makes you wonder how bad our criminal justice system is.
This cuts to economics and we DONT tax the top enough and we don't pay workers enough and we don't invest enough in worker pay. It really is as simply as the more you deny more, the more desperate humans become. The more you provide them stability, the less likely they do these things.
What he did was horrible. But if his upbringing had included support that was based on absolutes, because his "all or nothing attitude" while ended up in murder, seems no different to me than someone who doesn't commit murder who ends up rich merely exploiting others. If you act out by violence, someone or society in general sold you a script, and when you didn't meet up to that you take it out on others. That can manifest in violence, but it can also be "sucks to be you" economic view where whom you harm others using lawyers and wealth.
I am not going to lose any sleep over his death, but I do worry the more the pay gap explodes the more desperate people like him we will see. 3rd world nations have much more violence than this. It is sad, because our GDP says prevention is affordable.
Men especially are sold this bullshit attitude that we have to be super human, that we are nothing unless we are the leader. I am betting this guy was sold a utopia by family or society, and when he didn't meet what he thought was right, he took it out on others. I think most crime, regardless of motivations, stems from those around the perp family or society selling them an impossible idea.
It still does not make it right, glad he is dead, but society needs to stop passing down their utopias to the next generation. Stopping him now does not constitute a long term plan for reducing the next desperate person from doing the same. At some point we have to invest in prevention.
