I Empathize With School Shooters

Some thoughts on school shootings, schooling, and abuse.

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• murder
• killing
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[eepidoodle]

my parents were crap, i was bullied at home and at school. i never ever thought about killing my classmates. because i had self control. i empethize to a degree with these people but there are other ways around it. they obviously have serious psycological problems and should have gotten/sought help from a doctor or even just phoned a helpline to talk and get advice.

[XOmniverse]

@eepidoodle What do you mean by self control, and why didn't they have it?

[eepidoodle]

@XOmniverse by controlling my actions. all that sort of retaliation does is ruin your own life. bullying is awful and destroys so much of you but the one thing you can control is your own actions. why didnt they have it? i dunno, never spoken to a mass murderer before

[XOmniverse]

@eepidoodle Control independent of causality?

[paultoronto42]

I think the biggest problem with Objectivism is it's complete rejection of psychological determinism and yet the argument presented in this video depends on psychological determinism.

[XOmniverse]

I don't claim to be an Objectivist.

[dubified89]

@XOmniverse Yes

[SirChocolateHobo]

I'm so glad to hear somebody else share this view as well. Thanks for posting this along with some of your other videos.

[fnatic9]

I think its a problem with western society. Its so backwards and degenerate that when someone rejects it, if they dont have anything good to go to, they can fall into all kinds of extremist beliefs. Especially if those beliefs are underlined by evolution and natural selection thinking, then they are actually cleansing society of perverts gays minorities etc.

[noodles41]

I enjoyed this video. I can see what you had to say had been well thought out, and was expressed with an open-mind. I think it would come across as more personal to the viewer if you would make eye contact occasionally, rather than generally just reading from your notes or w/e (but I can appreciate the obvious differences of chatting with a camera instead of a person). Thanks for the video.

[john2earth]

I was bullied in the worst ways imaginable for absolutely no justifiable reason throughout my entire life. I forever fantasized about killing those who victimized me on a daily basis but didn't. Instead, I quit school, got my GED, and withdrew from society. I now suffer with mental illnesses from the abuse. It affects every part of my life and has scarred me forever. I sympathize with school shooters because it makes me sad to see how far the abuse pushes others.

[buddhabassist]

Smart man.

[zieben64]

@weedwisdompain were u high when you wrote this shit

[420captain]

@weedwisdompain I understand where you're coming from,But.If everyone had the outlook you seem to have,or if a person teaches there kids what you think,we would have a world of dark minded murderers.Suffering happens like snow falls on the earth.Most people, in fact i think all people suffer at some time or another.It's just terrible when a person suffers for long periods of time.Life is brutal,but it is brutal for "most"all people,and we try and be good people and get through it.Life can b good

[weedwisdompain]

think about it, all these people who where killed, they where mostly all owners of perfect lives, all having fun and enjoying themselves evryday, and the guy who shot them spent his life suffering and being judged by evrybody...think about it, whos immoral ???

[weedwisdompain]

Its not immoral to rape and murder, these people are not sick, they are desperate and sick of what life has did to them, if you cant feel sorry for them, it means that you are sick in the head and you are immoral...