At 8/28/06 02:32 PM, Proud_American wrote:
I fail to see the similarities between drugs and killing people
What always crosses my mind when I hear about things like this is how different the mindset must have been compared to ours today.
Think about it this way Proud_American. If you went up and got a gun and went to school and killed a handful of kids, you wouldn't be able to live with yourself. Essentially, your mind takes that and sees it as wrong.
Your thoughts, therefore, shouldn't be of hatred for the boys, or hopes that they burn in hell. What I think about is what state of mind they must have been in to go through with their actions.
You're thinking two dimensionally. How their actions relate to your actions. But that's not how it works. For some reason, shooting up their school seemed like the right thing to do.
"Shooting up their school seemed like the right thing to do."
Now why/how would that end up being the case?
And the whole "plenty of kids get bullied, and none of them do this" argument is equally empty, because the simple truth becomes then, "plenty of kids get bullied, and none of them do this, so they obviously weren't in quite the same situation."
I could never blame someone for how their mind recycles reality into thought. That, to me, is insane.
I accept people are different, and different minds having gone through different crucibles will do different things.
Sometimes that means shooting up your school.
Though, thankfully, it rarely does.