To a sweeping indictment of the entire religion or lack thereof. He was "nuts." To give whatever religious group he was part of any share of the guilt is gutless.
2007-04-18 13:25:12 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I agree with you. Its sad isn't it.
2007-04-18 13:27:51 · answer #1 · answered by mrs.mom 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Can I blame all of those groups, including myself?
I strongly believe that any society is as strong as it treats its weakest link. For a small part we should all look into a mirror when tragedies like these happen. Anytime we act selfish, or ignore a cry for help, or even ignore the slightest hint that anybody feels lonely...something like this can happen in a society like we have.
But your point is well taken. It's ridiculous to blame this on a religion or lack thereof. That would be the same as me calling all men with moustaches murderers, because Hitler had a moustache.
2007-04-18 13:32:08 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No one with any sense is making these kinds of sweeping generalizations, BUT just imagine if this guy was Muslim. Crazy, yes, but also Muslim. You KNOW there would be an entirely different reaction here. Bad people come in all religions--people need to remember that.
2007-04-18 13:28:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i imagine you're making an outstanding variety of assumptions about many human beings. i'm a Muslim or perhaps if every person else believes or does no longer is none of my company and what i trust in turn isn't any human being elses company. i do no longer attempt to transform every person, and if someone tries to ''spread the word'' to me about their personal faith i'm safeguard adequate in my personal to civilly say ''thanks yet no thanks''. I agree quite mutual recognize does no longer bypass a bypass over, in all likelihood. there is adequate rome for each body to easily stay and enable stay. Peace She said...
2016-10-18 02:25:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only thing we need to know about this guy is what was missing from his life that he could do something like this.
Was it abuse? Neglect? Mental illness? Drugs?
We can't bring the victims back, we can't stop what has already happened. The only thing we can do now is learn from it.
What can we do to reach out to "at-risk" children so that they don't resort to what this young man did in order to make his place in this world, or deal with his pain, or whatever it was that drove him to do this?
We cannot choose who children are born to or what bad influences and traumas are in their lives.
We can mentor them and be good influences in their lives, and research shows that mentoring and advocating for at-risk kids reduces their risk of criminal activity later in life.
Big Brothers and Big Sisters only requires 4 hours a month. Offer to read to children in a homeless shelter, or in poor schools. Volunteer for after school programs.
I agree that his religious beliefs are of little consequence. What we can learn from this - what matters now - is that we can't pretend that "those peoples' kids" are not our concern. All children are our children. They all need our concern and assistance and love.
Love a child, change the world.
2007-04-18 15:17:23 · answer #5 · answered by Contemplative Chanteuse IDK TIRH 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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I strongly believe that any society is as strong as it treats its weakest link. For a small part we should all look into a mirror when tragedies like these happen. Anytime we act selfish, or ignore a cry for help, or even ignore the slightest hint that anybody feels lonely...something like this can happen in a society like we have."
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you entirely, but I am on premise of using the stereotype of a teased antisocial driven to shoot people. If you seen the interview of his roommates, they did everything humanely possible to reach out to him. They only included him in social events and had all the patience in the world. This boy CHOSE to shoot people, he wasn't driven to it. He is not the victim. The people he shot were the victims. HE IS THE PERPETRATOR. Feel sorry for him as much as you do for Hitler. Both were tortured souls, but by their own merit, not by society at large.
2007-04-18 15:13:47 · answer #6 · answered by jon s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well said! The guy was -- to put it mildly -- not well. No religion, or any other human institution that he was associated with should have to carry any stigma because he wasn't right in the head. Should we now be wary of all people from Virginia? All college students? All immigrants? All Asian people? How absurd!
2007-04-18 13:33:05 · answer #7 · answered by cherochap 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Agreed!
2007-04-18 13:29:54 · answer #8 · answered by Screamin' Banshee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a solid fact. It also doesn't translate as a sweeping indictment of gun ownership and people of Asian nationality.
He was one, mentally ill guy who happened to be South Korean.
2007-04-18 13:28:38 · answer #9 · answered by Resident Heretic 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I concur, mentally disturbed people like this one are far too crazy to have a real understanding of God or lackthereof. Even if he could recite the Bible, or Thus Spoke Zarathustra by heart, that doesn't mean he understood it properly, and that we should judge actions based on inanimate objects.
2007-04-18 13:30:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is an indictment of the failure of the medical profession, police, college administration, and the judical to react to a bad situation.
2007-04-18 13:34:57 · answer #11 · answered by Fish <>< 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋