Was he inherently psychotic and violent? Or did something specific in life happen to him to cause him to commit these crimes? Did it build up over time? Did he snap due to a traumatic incident?
2007-04-18 16:47:26 · 28 answers · asked by BUNguyenI 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
violent video games ....but knowing now......that guy was a sicko long before the shootings....
2007-04-18 16:49:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
I think that he was a disturbed individual. We all have our baggage (some more than others) but yet we don't all go out and kill. So what makes the difference between Cho Seung Hui and the rest of us? We may never know.
However, I think that the media does play a major role when they make such a big deal when an incident like this happens. There are other disturbed individuals like Cho Seung Hui out there watching this on television thinking how they too could be immortalized if they were to do something like this. That is scary.
I know what happened is bad. Very sad. Newsworthy. However, when the media makes it such a big deal - well, it makes a star out of the bad guy.
2007-04-26 08:19:53 · answer #2 · answered by bobbijoslin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From my point of view looking at what happened and all information relating to Cho Seung Hui (particularly the video sent to NBC) he problably had Schizophrenia that was overlooked. I am curious about his childhood, I haven't heard anything beyond the fact he came to the U.S. at age eight. I do believe that everything you mentioned is a factor in what drove Cho Seung Hui to carry out the massacre except for the traumatic event causing him to snap.
2007-04-19 00:02:34 · answer #3 · answered by Yahoo Sucks 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Cho, chose to murder....it will be found that from the age of 5 or even earlier..he moved away from people....it will be found that he was not easy to soothe as an infant and that he was stubborn.
By his choices (fear actually) most likely he is an extreme case of avoidant personality disorder and narcissitic p.d....he failed to learn to 'connect to others'...and this steeped in his "bad seed" soul for years....
His self hatred....turned 'out' against others'..."rich kids"..."kids with social ives' and savoir faire; and he turned even more bitter.
It is as though he made a declaration: I will not be ignored..."even though he is the one who put the wall around himself and demanded to be ignored"...and to show that he is more than the empty, lonely, worthless shell that he was: he murdered.
He took dozens of innocent people into death with him; just because he could...May he be judged by the Great Judge and may the young people be avenged; when it is time.
But, to look for his potty chair training is simplistic...I would bet that he was stubborn and hard to train.
To blame kids for teasing him, is ignoble....kids tease kids and a big part of that (even though it seems cruel) is to get the person to make some changes. Teasing is, the majority at any rate, a confrontation; and the person has a choice...be a hurt, angry person ..or learn how to adapt better.
He was a time bomb waiting to go off and fully prepared....why it was Monday and not Sunday is irrelevant..
One last thing..we are a free nation..and 'the authorities' cannot make the weird, the different, the kooky or the just plain obnoxious 'go to counseling'...Before any therapy can work ...the patient needs to know he is sick....Cho had it all figured out...he was a victim, who needed to fight back...It was totally crazy and evil; but, it was his solution. Shame, shame on him....from this day forward, I will work to forget his name...I intend to blot it from my memory..his name....he has no right to even be remembered, as an entity...
2007-04-19 00:35:12 · answer #4 · answered by Bill S 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It is possible he was born mentally ill, or he could have had a tragedy occur in his life that caused this abnormal behavior to develop.
Some macabre stories he wrote for his classes involved boys planning to kill a teacher who sexually abused him, so it's possible Cho was sexually abused as a child.
I'm guessing if this abnormal behavior was caused by a specific event in his life, it happened when he was very young and was left untreated. Such extreme behavior is not planned and acted out in a split second. If you've watched any videos with him speaking, he was mildly angry looking, but mostly emotionless. He obviously started a pattern of repressing his feeling early on.
2007-04-18 23:55:53 · answer #5 · answered by Sandy 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No one will ever know. We can only speculate. I know he was bullied as a kid. I know that sounds like an excuse but some people really can't let abuse from others go. What he did was absolutely horrible but we should think twice before we open our mouths to speak unkindly to others. Maybe we can create monsters!!
2007-04-26 19:09:27 · answer #6 · answered by aj's girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He just sick of tire of this world acting toward him. He's a loner and blame everything on anything but eventually he snaps. I believe he build over time from all the teasing and not "going to party" like regular college kids.
2007-04-18 23:58:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
He was a deeply disturbed young man. He had a chemical imbalance in his brain exacerbated by stress and frustration at school and his personal life.
2007-04-26 20:29:51 · answer #8 · answered by CHOCOBEAR 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really don't think that we've got enough info on his personal life yet, to determine what made him snap. Nobody had said anything about his early years. I am interested in knowing too.
2007-04-18 23:52:22 · answer #9 · answered by ask me ? 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
His two plays allude to a history of physical abuse by a male authority figure, either a fictional step father or math teacher.
2007-04-18 23:50:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
One therapist I saw on T.V. says that judging from his writings she thinks that he may have been sexually abused. Who knows maybe we will never know but he was insane and the whole thing is a tragedy and I feel for the victims and their families.
2007-04-18 23:51:14 · answer #11 · answered by mom of twins 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋