Anyone else troubled by Dr. Deepak Chopra's question about the Virginia Tech Massacre?

Question

How can creating a community of understanding help prevent tragedies like the one at Virginia Tech?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AunFiNwxxdiUrhuxRwY0k2rpy6IX?qid=20070418123417AALhrm5

What is this 'Community of Understanding' he's talking about? Do you really think he believes this could have been prevented?

Answer 1

He's just using words verbage and jargon and doesn't know how to ever write a question correctly. Why can't he just say, "How can an understanding community help..."? He's just striving for self-promotion so that people will buy his books. He isn't even interesting, just annoying.

Answer 2

Community of understanding is rather an intuitive statement ,
Perhaps after you sleep on it , it will become clear .

And yes , IF people were more community oriented and less ego centric , these tragedies would reduce .
However , the self centered mindset is so common in the US in the last several decades , that changing to a community mindset may be a very tough hurdle .

Answer 3

well see now that's the issue - much like "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" ... you see, can we stop this from happening again ... sure, the same exact person doing it again on the same exact day to the same exact people, of course we could stop that now - because we have all the info we need to stop HIM.

However ... can we stop the next one, no. We might be able to stop one or two, three or four, but we have been doing that through time and nothing new from this is going to teach us how to stop anyone else just make it almost worse by alienating those who are the quiet loner shy types ....

Answer 4

It's a first step to take, however small it may be.

However, although it's great to see that people want to take action to prevent this, I don't think this will cure the mental illness that these killers have.

It's not as simple as reaching out to the killer and being a friend...if they're mentally unstable, it's most likely going to manifest itself whether or not he has a "community of understanding."

Answer 5

He is basically asking what can we do as a community to understand each other more so that we can try even more to help prevent a tradegy like VA.

Do you think there is some hidden sub-text in his question? It seems pretty straight forward to me.

Answer 6

I think he means that we need to teach our children to not torment other kids, b/c different people have different threshholds. Some of these (including the VT incident) would still happen, b/c this was not out of being bullied, but the rest which are generally a product of peer torment, would be reduced.

Answer 7

I THINK ALL THE SIGNS WERE THERE AS A FEW OF THE PROFESSORS THERE SAID HE WAS WRITING REALLY SCARY THINGS FOR CLASS' AND 1 OF THE TEACHERS EVEN SCHOOLED HIM IN A ROOM WITH HER 'AND HIM AS SHE DIDN;T WANT OTHER STUDENTS AROUND THIS WACKO...THE DAMN SCHOOL SHOULD OF SHUT DOWN THE SCHOOL AFTER THE FIRST SHOOTING HAPPENED 'INSTEAD OF WAITING 2HOURS WHILE ANOTHER 30 INNOCENT KIDS AND TEACHERS GOT SPLATTERED,,,...,,, /It;s pretty awful when you can't even go to school and be safe,,,Now comes the crazy copycats,.,. ALREADY TODAY THEY HAD 3 BOMB THREATS AT DIFFERENT SCHOOLS.. My prayers are with all that lost friends and family members in this shooting and all the ones before this one,,,,,,,,...

Answer 8

It really depends on how you think of his question . No, I'm not troubled, because Deepak help people think intensely .

Answer 9

Me!! When I first heard it at the information... my entire frame felt bloodless!!! My inner most sympathies to the households and peers of individuals who have been killed on this tragic occasion!! ?Jesse?

Answer 10

i am troubled by the whole situation!
i cant even comprehend why anyone would do this!