Hey Cho, where you going with that gun in your hand? Hey Cho, where you going with that gun in your hand? Well, I'm off to get my face on every station in the land. Well, I'm off to get my face on every station in the land.
Here I go responding seriously to a troll (again):
He'd probably have given him a hug, which might have stopped this whole fucking thing from happening in the first place. But this is America: why bother trying to help the mentally ill, when there's clinical and distant professionals to do that for us.
Hell is empty, all the devils are here. - Shakespear
yes, lets air it. i'd like to make sure that the other mickey and malory wanna be's can make sure they get it right, he got what he wanted, to be remembered on national tv. now he's famous yet another american psycho for the kids to emulate.
dimwit, what about american that rape and set 14 year old girls and their parents on fire? Far far worse has happened in Iraq and Vietnam. I see you forgot to mention that... and is jihadi a new word you made up?
Lord, grant me the serenity to ignore the trolls, the courage to debate with honest opponents, and the wisdom to know the difference.
dimwit, what about american that rape and set 14 year old girls and their parents on fire? Far far worse has happened in Iraq and Vietnam. I see you forgot to mention that... and is jihadi a new word you made up?Your reply has given me pause. How should I respond
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Cho got what he wanted, and so will the next Cho, or the next Columbine, or whatever it's official name will be. The media feeds off of the tragedies and the tragedies feed off the media. On the flip side there is the 'awareness' of the thing. It's a double-edged sword and it's idiotic that the school didn't do anything about the obvious problem before it happened.
You can't be rational with stuff like belief, because belief ain't predicated upon anything approaching logic. In fact, belief resembles (quite a lot) the sorts of justification that the madman Cho used himself. I might be prepared to be nice to and hug a madman (to help with the alienation), but I'm not certain about knowingly hugging a Christian. I mean, honestly, standards have to be maintained somewhere.
I don't think Cho went on a spree murder/suicide in the hopes that he'd get posthumously rewarded with a week of air time. I disagree, from what I have read and seen of the "package" he absolutely wished to be a celebrity. If not, then to whom was he speaking to? He did this not only for revenge against those who offended him, but as an example to others of what sort of fate awaited you.
I don't think not airing tapes like this is in the public interest or that it encourages others. Airing or not airing the tapes is not the question. With the internet any "package" will circuit the globe before we have a chance to even try to suppress it. The question is context. If aired with sympathy to the murderer then I do feel that it will have the effect of creating more of them. I also believe the reverse is true, that if we call the murderer a pervert, speak about how this individual was given opportunities for treatment, and how much effort was wasted on them, then maybe, just maybe, we will prevent something like this.
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Hey Cho, where you going with that gun in your hand?
Well, I'm off to get my face on every station in the land.
Well, I'm off to get my face on every station in the land.
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He'd probably have given him a hug, which might have stopped this whole fucking thing from happening in the first place. But this is America: why bother trying to help the mentally ill, when there's clinical and distant professionals to do that for us.
Hell is empty, all the devils are here. - Shakespear
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Lord, grant me the serenity to ignore the trolls,
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and the wisdom to know the difference.
dimwit, what about american that rape and set 14 year old girls and their parents on fire? Far far worse has happened in Iraq and Vietnam. I see you forgot to mention that... and is jihadi a new word you made up?Your reply has given me pause. How should I respond ( ... )
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I might be prepared to be nice to and hug a madman (to help with the alienation), but I'm not certain about knowingly hugging a Christian. I mean, honestly, standards have to be maintained somewhere.
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I'm glad I couldn't be any more specific.
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I disagree, from what I have read and seen of the "package" he absolutely wished to be a celebrity. If not, then to whom was he speaking to? He did this not only for revenge against those who offended him, but as an example to others of what sort of fate awaited you.
I don't think not airing tapes like this is in the public interest or that it encourages others.
Airing or not airing the tapes is not the question. With the internet any "package" will circuit the globe before we have a chance to even try to suppress it. The question is context. If aired with sympathy to the murderer then I do feel that it will have the effect of creating more of them. I also believe the reverse is true, that if we call the murderer a pervert, speak about how this individual was given opportunities for treatment, and how much effort was wasted on them, then maybe, just maybe, we will prevent something like this.
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