Another School Shooting

AG124 · 01-03-07, 02:46 PM

There has been another school shooting - in Washington this time. One student is dead, and the shooter has been taken into custody.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/03/sch...ion=cnn_latest

I don't think this has been posted yet, but if it has then the threads could be merged I guess.

TteFAboB · 01-03-07, 02:52 PM

And people laughed at SUBMAN when he suggested we should've pulled out of Washington.

U-533 · 01-03-07, 03:02 PM

Well as I have asked before (not sure if it was here or not) "If one is taught that all life evolved and there will be nothing after one dies...then why should one have any morals"?

Fish · 01-03-07, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by U-533

Well as I have asked before (not sure if it was here or not) "If one is taught that all life evolved and there will be nothing after one dies...then why should one have any morals"?

Because we are social animals!

Humanist have a high moral, and they don't believe in a hereafter.

CCIP · 01-03-07, 06:25 PM

Likewise, people like me ask "how people could value life if they believed it was guided by higher powers and the best part came after it anyway". :p
I'm about as close as reasonably possible to a nihilist, but I consider myself one of the more 'moral' people I know - I have no morals, just a practical principle of goodwill without a cause. It seems to work better than morals.

Read Dostoyevski's "Brothers Karamazov", it grapples with this problem from all angles.

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As for the shooting, what can I say. An unfortunate fact? Maybe I'm desensitized, but it doesn't surprise me anymore. There are a lot of disturbed people out there, and some occasionally blow up.

Camaero · 01-03-07, 07:05 PM

It was better when people who had disagreements fought it out with their fists. Both went home with bloody noses. Now people just whip out guns and shoot eachother.

People like the shooter are nothing but pathetic little nothings.

Torplexed · 01-03-07, 07:22 PM

This took place in Tacoma where I work, so it has been the subject d' jour for sure. I've come to believe we need to reform our archaic high school system away from this insane system where we try to muddle through every student from the brightest to the bitterest. We should have three tracks. One for the college bound. One for the vocational tech/trade school bound. And a fast track out into the streets for the tiny percentage of sociopathic losers who make education hell for everyone else.

01-03-07, 02:46 PM	#1
AG124 Sea Lord Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 1,878 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Another School Shooting There has been another school shooting - in Washington this time. One student is dead, and the shooter has been taken into custody. http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/03/sch...ion=cnn_latest I don't think this has been posted yet, but if it has then the threads could be merged I guess. __________________ DOWNLOAD GWX HERE: http://www.thegreywolves.com/index.html

01-03-07, 02:52 PM	#2
TteFAboB Admiral Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,247 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	And people laughed at SUBMAN when he suggested we should've pulled out of Washington. __________________ "Tout ce qui est exagéré est insignifiant." ("All that is exaggerated is insignificant.") - Talleyrand

01-03-07, 06:25 PM	#5
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Likewise, people like me ask "how people could value life if they believed it was guided by higher powers and the best part came after it anyway". :p I'm about as close as reasonably possible to a nihilist, but I consider myself one of the more 'moral' people I know - I have no morals, just a practical principle of goodwill without a cause. It seems to work better than morals. Read Dostoyevski's "Brothers Karamazov", it grapples with this problem from all angles. * As for the shooting, what can I say. An unfortunate fact? Maybe I'm desensitized, but it doesn't surprise me anymore. There are a lot of disturbed people out there, and some occasionally blow up. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet** (aka Captain Beefheart)

01-03-07, 07:05 PM	#6
Camaero The Old Man Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: USA, Massachusetts Posts: 1,477 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	It was better when people who had disagreements fought it out with their fists. Both went home with bloody noses. Now people just whip out guns and shoot eachother. People like the shooter are nothing but pathetic little nothings. __________________

01-03-07, 07:22 PM	#7
Torplexed Let's Sink Sumptin' ! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,823 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	This took place in Tacoma where I work, so it has been the subject d' jour for sure. I've come to believe we need to reform our archaic high school system away from this insane system where we try to muddle through every student from the brightest to the bitterest. We should have three tracks. One for the college bound. One for the vocational tech/trade school bound. And a fast track out into the streets for the tiny percentage of sociopathic losers who make education hell for everyone else. __________________ --Mobilis in Mobili--

01-03-07, 03:02 PM	#3
U-533 Samurai Navy Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: On my Boat Posts: 594 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Well as I have asked before (not sure if it was here or not) "If one is taught that all life evolved and there will be nothing after one dies...then why should one have any morals"?