Shooter incident at elementary school in Uvalde, Texas - 19 children and 2 adults dead (2 Viewers)

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Dallas_Saint73 said:
What would possess a kid to be so evil?
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No disagreeing with your overall sentiment, but I think one small step in the right direction would be to stop the knee-jerk "evil" characterizations whenever a young person does someTHING that is evil. That kid, in all likelihood, is not "evil" -- he is an almost statistically inevitable product of the culture in this country of 300 million people.

An example to highlight what I mean: Columbine. Eric Harris was the closest to meeting the characterization of "evil" if you want to consider psychopathy as being evil. Even then, the culture surrounding him played a big part in his doing what he did. Klebold, on the other hand, is much closer to what many of these young killers are...and inherent "evilness" is not their problem.

One can say that thiis distinction is not meaningful, but I disagree. Calling something "evil" gives our society an easy bogeyman to blame rather than doing something difficult and constructive to stop it from happening.
 
HoustonSaint68 said:
No disagreeing with your overall sentiment, but I think one small step in the right direction would be to stop the knee-jerk "evil" characterizations whenever a young person does someTHING that is evil. That kid, in all likelihood, is not "evil" -- he is an almost statistically inevitable product of the culture in this country of 300 million people.

An example to highlight what I mean: Columbine. Eric Harris was the closest to meeting the characterization of "evil" if you want to consider psychopathy as being evil. Even then, the culture surrounding him played a big part in his doing what he did. Klebold, on the other hand, is much closer to what many of these young killers are...and inherent "evilness" is not their problem.

One can say that thiis distinction is not meaningful, but I disagree. Calling something "evil" gives our society an easy bogeyman to blame rather than doing something difficult and constructive to stop it from happening.
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I see what you are saying.

What I meant was to commit such an evil act. No denying what he did was absolutely horrendous and evil.
 
Sources tell CNN that the shooter's father bought the AR-type gun as a holiday gift for his son AFTER the Jackson County sheriff's office talked to him about the online rumors.



This is Michigan all over again. :frack:
 
If you wanna hear what vladimir futon said about the GA shooting today, head over to the MAP...
 

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