Pretty good guess since 1/3 to 1/4 of the world is Chinese.Quote:
Originally Posted by strongbad
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Pretty good guess since 1/3 to 1/4 of the world is Chinese.Quote:
Originally Posted by strongbad
I've been watching the news trying to figure out just what caused him to go on a killing-spree. So far the general consensus is that he was mentally ill, years of strange things, such as writing a play in which a step-father and stepson kill each other by throwing hammers and cutting each other up with chainsaws. He was just deranged. Badly, badly deranged. I can't believe no one picked up on it earlier, or at least said something.
Going by what the media says (I know, grain of salt and all that), his roommates and the uni had picked up on him being more than a bit weird. He was apparently referred to the campus therapist because of his creative writing exercises.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paladin_Hammer
Of course, most people who write about twisted things never actually go out and kill other humans, so identifying them isn't all that useful anyway.
Most people also don't write stuff like that. I think it shouldn't be dismissed so hastily. IMO, it takes a 'deranged' person to write stuff like that, and only deranged people tend to go on shooting sprees. :shrug:
I think using deranged probably isn't the best word choice here. It's a loaded term when discussing behaviour.Quote:
Originally Posted by Evans
That said, it doesn't take a particularly dangerous mind to concoct horrific stories. It takes a mind somewhat outside the norm, but I don't see anything about it that requires the person be mentally unstable or a danger to others. Especially given it's comparative prevalence in western culture.
I guess that's your opinion on the matter, but I personally think people who write stories of the sort aren't simply "outside the norm".
I tend to think that if you write stories about people being mutilated and killed, you're far from stable. Am I saying all horror story writers are a danger to society? Nope, just that in this case (and likely many others, too lazy to google it up), he was. I see this as the kid who starts killing animals and ends up a murderer. Not all kids who do that end up monsters.Quote:
... I don't see anything about it that requires the person be mentally unstable...
And herein lies a problem. Even if we could demonstrate a serious correlation between people who write/enjoy morbid tales and people who commit violent crime (I haven't seen one, but my experience is far from universal. There may be one), there's simply too many in the first category for tracking to be of any use in heading off these incidents. If we're going to try and prevent this shit from happening, there's no point squandering resources on something so widespread. Pick things with known correlations to violence that are rare enough to get a workable hit rate, or track by multiple factors. Just do it in a way that actually works rather than giving false positives on ~10% of the population.Quote:
Originally Posted by Evans
I'm with you as far as animal cruelty being something to watch for though. It's a far smaller segment of the population, and one with significant correlation regarding violent anti-social tendencies (or whatever the official name for sociopathy is nowadays).
Oh, I don't think it's worth it to waste money looking around for kids who mutilate animals, either. Or anything like that. We don't need money, just some basic level of awareness. Teachers/parents/friends/anyone who knew about his writings didn't do much other than go "Hey, that's not normal. Let's get him some cheap ass school counseling." It's not like it's the first time this has happened. Many kids have written up a kill list and were found in possession of guns. He just got passed the filters. I prefer thinking this kind of story only happens when people decide not to act. This could have been prevented, guys.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hypnos
That guy[gunman] is incredibly similar to most members of 4chan.
^That wasn't a joke.
its sick that the shootings happened, and its weird that it has because my girlfriend and i have both thought about what we would do if something like this happened at our school. in high school there was one kid who was expelled because he was planning on shooting the school he had drawings and ugh he was a sick fuck (his uncle lives on my street :crying: im scared). and now at university well i dont think anyone would but who knows. my girlfriends school doesnt have openable windows so she wouldnt be able to escape. anyone else think about what they would do if it happened at your school?
i like this responseQuote:
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Originally Posted by cftf
sums up everything i think quite nicely.Quote:
Originally Posted by aniki21
Except he was south korean and has been in the US since he was 8. >_>
The pictures they put online from his "media package",
Makes him look like a douche who played too much Counter stike.
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Originally Posted by cnn
That dude is so emotionally mixed up and depressed that is why he did it. That is what I see from the video.
yea... sad part is... i heard that he had been in a psychiatric center before this incident...... obviously it didnt helpQuote:
Originally Posted by Bigboy360
im also curious as to who the "they" is that he keeps referring to in the video
is it america in general?
or is it a specific group of people?
so many questions...