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Originally Posted by waste gate
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the contradictions I often hear from some on this board. I'm not saying we have any potential murders here. But we do have too much permissiveness which will now try to either attempt to understand it or justify it.
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What's wrong with understanding why someone would do something like this? |
Because I don't think it serves any purpose. It doesn't stop the next crazy from doing it. More resources should be placed on preventing future episodes. By that I mean letting it be known that the easy opportunity of shooting up a school full of easy victims doesn't exist. |
I can't see such measures affecting the mentally ill. Someone who believes that shooting up his/her school isn't going to be reasoned with, at least not in a deterrence situation.
Whereas, if we could actually get down to the root causes of this kind of behaviour (in this case it seems to be a very unhealthy home environment), observe the indicators, we could take more effective measures against them.
I say "against them", if a teenager believes that he/she has to shoot up a school, serious psychiatric care is required.
Investigating causes/disorders could in fact, stop the next one. Personally, I don't believe we'll ever be without these events. I'd be worried about total preventative measures creating more problems than they would solve.
Anything's better than vilification of something just because we don't understand it.