Columbine

[ReB]

I'm going to school tomorrow with a black T-shirt that says wrath on it.

[Violet]

I'm going to school tomorrow with a black T-shirt that says wrath on it.

WoWnerd

(Easy Jim... it's all in good fun.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvUbbYX9BMs

[Erinome]

I'm going to school tomorrow with a black T-shirt that says wrath on it.

Instead of exacerbating the situation, why don't you try a little humility. I am a firm believer that if someone speaks ill of you, you should live so that no one would ever believe it.

The Columbine Massacre is not a funny thing. Regardless of your relation to one of the murderers, you should do yourself the respect of distancing yourself from that tragedy.

If the people in your school wish to think that because a murderer was your cousin, you are somehow a bad person, that's their own ignorance playing out. If you then back up their judgments by seemingly defending any sort of "wrath", then you are simply confirming their preconceived notions with your own actions.

This may cause consequences that you possibly hadn't considered.

[Shell B]

I'm pretty sure he is kidding. If we can't joke about horrible things, then we are doomed to be miserable creatures forever because the world is a pretty horrible place -- hence Columbine. Who is anyone to say how a person should react to a situation or with what level of reverence it should be treated? The Spanish Inquisition was a horror that I am certain you have never come close to witnessing, yet Monty Python makes light of it. Are you saying the S.I. Python skit wasn't funny? If that isn't what you are saying, then why is it okay to make light of torture, but not Columbine? Is it because Columbine involved kids or simply because you can actually remember when it happened/were alive? Either way, a joke is a joke. It's not shitting on a victim or victims. It doesn't take away from the severity of the situation. I made a joke about it and think it was a very horrible situation. One does not erase the other. A sense of humor is a funny thing.

[ReB]

I know. I'm not really going to do that. I actually wont do anything. If someone says something about it, I'll just tell them I dont give a shit what they think.

[Shell B]

Alternatively, you could get this really pained, scared look on your face and say, "Do you think mass murder runs in families?!?!"

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

^ Good point. But I'm just saying, Eric was just a troubled kid. If you knew him, you would say it too. (That he was good at heart I mean)

I believe you and don't care. The guy remained responsible for his actions,period.

If someone says something about it, I'll just tell them I don't give a shit what they think.

Why? You obviously do care. Say nothing, and walk away. Sometimes it really is better to say nothing.Defending the guy was a dumb thing to do. You got a mindless knee-jerk reaction from the herd which was predictable.

[Epimethean]

^ Good point. But I'm just saying, Eric was just a troubled kid. If you knew him, you would say it too. (That he was good at heart I mean)

No I wouldn't. Sociopaths and psychopaths are not "good at heart." Plenty of people have been bullied. Only the pathetic ones shoot people.

[Shell B]

Reb, out of curiosity, does your user name have anything to do with Eric Harris?

[Rev. Rye]

^ Good point. But I'm just saying, Eric was just a troubled kid. If you knew him, you would say it too. (That he was good at heart I mean)

No I wouldn't. Sociopaths and psychopaths are not "good at heart." Plenty of people have been bullied. Only the pathetic ones shoot people.

There may have been a time when his statement was true, but, after he killed so many people, he's completely voided the right to be considered "good at heart."

I mean, I've been a victim of bullying. Given the correspondence of what has happened to me with the DSM-IVTR, I think that my experiences may have given me PTSD. But I knew that, if I was ever going to give a response to the bullying, I knew that I would have to do my damnedest to not seem like I'm the bad guy. I don't want to end up seeming like D-FENS from Falling Down, standing off with a cop and wondering how I became "the bad guy," and I hope you don't either, Jonny ReB. My own personal mantra, taken from, of all places, Funkadelic, "I must rise above it all or drown in my own shit."