After reading so much information about the tragedy that occured at VT I think I'm going to rant for a bit. while I can definitely sympathsize with the victims, I mean who couldn't? But I think we should be careful to look and see what we label the shooter. Perhaps he doesn't deserve our sympathies or even pity, but he was still human. I mean degrading someone to nonhuman is a fatalistic attitude to take. Most times this tactic is employed by the military to persuade people to go to war against other human beings. Perhaps it was because the shooter didn't view his victims as humans since he had no connections with them, but still, forgiveness is divine. I'm not defending what he did, I'm just saying that we should take a careful look and analyze what could have motivated this guy to do what he did and see if we could learn anything from this experience. Let's be so quick to jump the gun (no pun intended) and go to war against something/one/nation like what we did for 9/11.
Or perhaps I'm just crazy for even advocating this. But maybe I have sympathy for the shooter and his family because I'm a loner myself. Yes, at some points I do get very depressed but never would I do something like what the shooter did. No matter what others have done to you, it's not justifiable to take another human life, considering this was 30 some lives. Although I'd hurt myself sometimes (just mentally, most times not physically), which is hard not to do.
Friday, April 20, 2007
my thoughts on the recent VT shooting
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It may suprise you to know that I agree to some extent.
It's been said before, so I'll be brief; I don't think that the national media should be spending so much time on this. It's a tragedy, to be sure, but the glaring light of the spotlight is going to do nothing to cauterize the wounds. To pay excess attention to it is to try and leech entertainment off of other people's sorrow. Do we really need on-the-hour updates of information about the killer? Do we need to see the interview of a thousand different students and police officers and psychologists? No. Let the dead rest, and let the mourners have peace in which to mourn.
The man was a fool and did a terrible thing, but this is wrong.
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