RE: Active shooter in NZ
March 15, 2019 at 12:48 pm
(This post was last modified: March 15, 2019 at 12:51 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Here in the us we leverage the notion to call domestics "disturbed people" while gleefully employing the term "terrorist" for foreigners and other undesirables. It's not just an issue of excusing an individual, we use it to excuse our entire society, lol. We'll even do this after the fact, it's pretty much inevitable that the media will trip all over itself to make comparisons of this mans actions and manifesto to groups like ISIS. The conceptual exportation of violence is a thing.
Meanwhile, it's entirely likely that he -was- acting on the shared ideology of his community.
As Yon pointed out, the guy may be a nutter, we don't know, but it doesn't take a nutter to open fire at other people at a mosque or anywhere else - just commitment. Sometimes, the only rational thing a nutter -does- are the things we take to be indicative of their being crazy. It may be crazy, for example, to believe in white elimination..but if you really believed in it...what would the sane thing to do actually be? How does a sane person respond to looming genocide?
Pewpewpew.
Meanwhile, it's entirely likely that he -was- acting on the shared ideology of his community.
As Yon pointed out, the guy may be a nutter, we don't know, but it doesn't take a nutter to open fire at other people at a mosque or anywhere else - just commitment. Sometimes, the only rational thing a nutter -does- are the things we take to be indicative of their being crazy. It may be crazy, for example, to believe in white elimination..but if you really believed in it...what would the sane thing to do actually be? How does a sane person respond to looming genocide?
Pewpewpew.
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