<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->pingoo wrote: What I find really shocking is that the mental instability of Cho was well known and that nothing was done to help him or even to understand why he was the way he was. This, NeoLotus, is the real problem of canaries falling out.
What you don't understand is that bullying goes on in the administration of the school and in our country as a whole. Nothing was done to help him because our entire system is based on the social Darwinian attitude that only the strongest survive, so poor people, sick people, homeless people, starving people, mentally ill people are ALL disposable until they take up arms and oppose their oppression. But what makes the news is that some nutjob killed a bunch of "innocent" people for no apparent reason, unless you're George W. Bush killing innocent people in Iraq and then you get a pass.
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Our entire country is operating on Lord of the Flies rules. </b>There is NO culture of caring for people in our institutions and in our society except in a few pockets here and there. The school itself is just another symptom of it. Good grief! No one understands what Marley said to Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol."
I don't know what country you live in but you ought to read Mencius. He lays it out pretty clearly how things like this happen and where the true responsibility of it lies.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->You've said it all! America is a truly violent culture because of its pervasive Christianity. Ireland, were I live, is going the same way .. you know, that Irish- American ROMAN CATHOLIC tradition! Talk about NORMALISED barbarianism!!!
As you say: "triggered all of their repressed rage against being bullied as a child."
<b>And there's none more repressed and enraged than the child who was forced to swallow religious dogma in very large lumps! Yes, Christian America is full to overflowing with such dehumanized people. </b>As is Catholic Ireland.
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What you don't understand is that bullying goes on in the administration of the school and in our country as a whole. Nothing was done to help him because our entire system is based on the social Darwinian attitude that only the strongest survive, so poor people, sick people, homeless people, starving people, mentally ill people are ALL disposable until they take up arms and oppose their oppression. But what makes the news is that some nutjob killed a bunch of "innocent" people for no apparent reason, unless you're George W. Bush killing innocent people in Iraq and then you get a pass.
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Our entire country is operating on Lord of the Flies rules. </b>There is NO culture of caring for people in our institutions and in our society except in a few pockets here and there. The school itself is just another symptom of it. Good grief! No one understands what Marley said to Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol."
I don't know what country you live in but you ought to read Mencius. He lays it out pretty clearly how things like this happen and where the true responsibility of it lies.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->You've said it all! America is a truly violent culture because of its pervasive Christianity. Ireland, were I live, is going the same way .. you know, that Irish- American ROMAN CATHOLIC tradition! Talk about NORMALISED barbarianism!!!
As you say: "triggered all of their repressed rage against being bullied as a child."
<b>And there's none more repressed and enraged than the child who was forced to swallow religious dogma in very large lumps! Yes, Christian America is full to overflowing with such dehumanized people. </b>As is Catholic Ireland.
If you read this, email me: catholicclone@yahoo.ie
Cathy <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->