Are Cho Seung Hui's Bullies to Blame for the Killings?

Question

True MOST people being tormented by bullies would not go on a shooting rampage but however....

We have now learned that Cho was Autistic, this means that even if people wanted to help him he was unable to NOT unwilling to be helped because Autistics just DO NOT know how to emotionally connect with others. Therefore were his tormentors to be 100% for the shooting? Or where does most of the blame lie?

In my opinion his educator, parents take some of the blame, but his tormentors are 80% to blame for what has happened...I hope they marinate in their shame and more importantly learn about their mistakes.

Answer 1

I think the bullies played a huge part in destroying his mental state. And I'm sure they feel no remorse nor guilt.

Answer 2

Kids torment each other. It's fact. All over the world, you will see children of certain ages being abusive to each other. It's because they are going through a phase where they are so unsure of their own value that they have to belittle others in order to feel better than someone else.

Cho had serious mental problems. Even the psychologists were unable to reach him. His family said he was an unusually cold child emotionally. How do you blame his family for that? Autism is genetic. People did try to help him, but they did not recognize that he was a great danger to others.

I feel very sorry for his family. I also feel very sorry for him. Cho did not know how to fit into society. He did not have the mental tools to do that. Kids are bullied in junior high, and they also bully other kids. But nearly all of them recover and become reasonably stable adults. So I don't think the bullying necessarily pushed him over the edge. I think it was primarily his own mental state, plus the stresses of being in college, plus the fact that he had no idea how to interact with people even when they tried to help him.

it's a tragedy. Let's not make it worse by blaming people.

Answer 3

Because we live in a free society, one of the things that is taken for granted is that a person's actions are his own. Cho shot people. He is to blame for having shot them, and no one else can take responsibility for that.

You can certainly blame bullies for making their victim's life's miserable, but that is all you can blame them for. They did not put a gun in his hand. They did not pull the trigger of that gun.

If you are asking what can be done to prevent this kind of tragedy, then the answer is to educate as many as possible on the things to look for when another person is troubled. Another consequence of living in a free society is that we tend to concentrate on our own issues and leave the issues of others for them to solve. This is necessary in a way because if you do not own your own problems, then they will not get solved, but too much of it can be disastrous when the other person is as disturbed as Cho apparently was.

These disasters do not just happen suddenly overnight. If people around Cho had known what to look for and had the power to intervene, then perhaps lives would have been saved.

In my opinion, the solution to these kinds of violent shootings is compassion and recognition applied to the disturbed person before the worst can happen.

Answer 4

The Bullies are everybody.

He compared himself with Jesus!

He was sick of the world and thought he was the best.
The same with David Koresh, Heavens Gate, Charles Manson. They have a "holier than thou" complex.

Same with the Columbine kids. They can do no evil.

They complain about everybody and everything. Fat People, Lazy people, Homosexuals, Pedophiles, Rich Kids, etc.
They are just too stupid or ignorant to figure out how to take advantage of others through other means that through a gun.

Take a look at the terrorists who think Islam is the perfect religion and that they are so holy they call others devils.

They see themselves as being perfect and everybody else is the cause of all the worlds suffering and evil.
It turns out that they are the ones to blame!

Answer 5

nope jsut another way to lay blame somewhere else besides where it should be, on cho. i ahd epilepsy as a child, was uncoordianted and i still think it made my brain not quite right, im depressed, have PTSD and was bullied as a child cuz i was a wimp. i ahvent gone on any rampages lately. cho is to blame. he went out, waht, a month before hand and bought the pistols and planned this, that gives him a month to realize he was wrong and to ahve sought help. HE should have sought help

Answer 6

Wouldnt you think the "psychologist" that declared him fit after a court recognized he was dangerous should have detected this autism?
I think Cho knew exactly what he was doing, and the court was correct in their finding. He should have been locked up. If anyone should be held responsible it should be the man that let him go free.

EDIT: Your additional details seem to portray Cho as a victim. Thats what Liberals do.......blame everthing and everyone else except the obvious answer. Why is that?

Answer 7

I blame the Korean culture alone.
Had he had support from Home Maybe Hed not become this killer or had someone "heard" him then Yes Maybe NO VT killings.

I have Aspergers, 52, SWM.

Effects me socially.

Hard to remember names, "mind freeze", worry over Minor vs major things, directions.
Think of others first.
I was diagnosed in 2000.
Had whole life.
Autism is a Lifelone disease.
NO cure YET.

I blame these:
Chos Korean culture.
Ineffective Student aid system
NO Mentoring
NO Counselling
NO Peer support.
NO Help from churches
NO screening
Being immigrant alone.
NOT knowing US ways etc.
His speech.
Inner Rage & NO Outlet for expression beyond Killing.
Look the Other Way soceity.
Overworked Mental Health professionals???
Inflexible College Bd, Staff??? ALL colleges

Answer 8

He was clearly mentally ill. Either the family was unwilling to admit that & choose to claim he was autistic instead, OR he was BOTH autistic AND mentally ill.

But autism was not to blame for this tragedy.

Answer 9

Here's the deal. He was a natural born hater and killer. If he hadn't been picked on, he would have found some other reason to justify his sick desire to slaughter people.

He stated, "Do you know what it's like to have your throat cut from ear to ear..." this obviously never happened to him because he was more than alive and well to become the mass murderer that he became.

This indicates to me that he had trouble separating himself personally from the ills of society. He obviously took on other's plight. Although I can empathize with his empathy, he was obviously insane and didn't know how to channel or process the ills of society, hence his sense of need to go out and avenge his "brothers and sisters," whoever they are that he was referring to.

That being said, who knows how much real "picking on" he really endured? He seems to have imagined some of it as well.

Answer 10

I know people who are Autistic and have been picked on their whole lives... They didn't go on a killing spree. They are to blame to a point. But also they are not. What they did was wrong. And some people will go on a killing spree because they have been picked. It takes a strong person not to do that. I have been teased and picked on my whole life through middle and high school. Students are students. They will tease other students. It still does not give him the right to go out and kill 32 INNOCENT people.

Answer 11

this is a sad case.
there is NEVER an excuse to go on a shooting rampage.
but i understand how being bullied contributed to his attacks. true a lot of people get bullied and eventually grow out of it. some people are blessed to have someone help them out. cho i think didnt have anyone strong enough to take him out of the shell he built for himself from years of abuse. there were others factors involved such as autism etc...