What can we learn as a society from the V-Tech killings?

Question

No one seems to know, or care, that he did what he did for a reason. He was not stretched out to. He did not feel needed, or even wanted anywhere. He attempted to vent through his creative writing work, but people just saw him as a creep and not someone who needed help, and went back to driving their Mercedes. But you don’t have a Mercedes? Yes, but you have more than he had. You have enough money to get by, and more importantly you have the intangibles. You have friends and you have a sense of purpose. People are too blind to realize that in his manifesto he left a bold messege-that America today is ruined. We no longer help those who need it, we brush them off. Even worse is how you avoid your problems, like how me defending a ‘mass murderer’ and condemning you will get me reported, just because you don’t like to hear what doesn’t sound good. I challenge America to change. Quite frankly I don’t believe it possible.

Also I am downright sick of what people are doing now. I've seen questions like "Ladies, do you think Cho was hot?" and "Did Cho poison the pet food?" People don't seem to get it, and guess what, I am positive something like this will happen again.

Please, state your opinion. It was pretty evident to me that hard rocker put out his reasoning, but changed the final opinion to agree with mine in hopes I'd pick him for B.A. Nah, I'll let the voters decide, I don't need three points.

Answer 1

Some thing that some of Americans NEVER seem to get it... Treat every one how you want to be treated...So you should start following that rule ...because I do and i am sitting here on my PC...Safe 101% It happen in US and everyone knows about it all over the world..lets say that if it had happen in KOREA? how many of you would have ANY interest...0-0?

Answer 2

You're quite correct: as things RIGHT NOW stand, NO ONE is 100% safe in ANY public place or building; a nutjob armed with a cause can pick off people like wild deer---and then kill themselves so the secret remains just that.

We currently have security in our nation's mass transit buildings, court-rooms and other terrorist target hot-spots. Why not TSA ALL our public/private schools and colleges/universities??? Annual cost for such couldn't possibly go over what's now spent funding the Iraq War.

Cho cannot be defended: he well deserves eternal roasting in Hell....and I won't stand in the way of his descent there. However, his surviving family DO deserve society's mature examples of compassion; they didn't rear Cho to kill. Cho's family are tortursomely as confused and miserable over what he's done; the people he senselessly killed/killing himself as well.

Cho, like the 9/11 terrorists, got by our "radar" because we got too wrapped up, too COMPLACENT--no thought to how we should better protect OUR SHORES AND IT'S PEOPLE!!!

Is anyone getting this? Or are we so tanked on crack, Zoloft and God knows what else to even care; apathetic to just allow society degenerate like some sci-fi horror flick?

America is NOT ruined irrepairably; we DO need to help those ON OUR SHORES FIRST. And we also need to tolerate opinions that may not reflect ours. America needs on track focus of being the best for ALL it's citizens---not being the richest or most war powerful......we ARE overdue for a reality check.

Answer 3

I think you're absolutely right. This country and many other places are in too deep to change. This young man needed help desperately, but all we are, as a society, are just a number. This kid didn't want to be bothered, so why bother him? Just let him alone, right? You just don't wake up one day and decide to go out and kill some people. So now we are asking, "Why did he do this?" Hello America!? If you're a poor lonely person, so what? If you got money and friends, good for you! Why do things like this have to happen to bring people closer together? Sad, isn't it? Maybe God is telling us something?

Answer 4

I understand where you are coming from but I also think it is hard to 'like' or be around people that are very different, especially when their actions and words are quite creepy or violent. I am not suggesting people have a right to exclude or torment people just because they are different, but people also have to think of their own safety. The VT killer stalked women and that is not someone I should 'have to' fix by becoming his friend. And so what about money? He wasn't poor! A sense of purpose? He was enrolled at university! I am more curious as to why he stalked women and wrote stories about rape and molestation. I am curious why he first killed a woman he was stalking. Are you going to blame her somehow? The problems he had go far more deeper that being teased and other people having more money than him.

Bullying is a problem and it needs attention and a solution, that's where I agree with you. Not taking responsibility for your actions and blaming others is also a problem. He took no responsibility for his thoughts, words or actions. He blamed everyone but himself. If fact he had more going for him than most people! My suspicion is that he was too emotionally damaged to see that.