Seung-Hui Cho: Sympathy or Resentment?

Question

Now that America has seen the video and pictures, we know his life wasn't all easy-breezy. So I ask this. Do you feel sorry for him? Now, this would have been a slightly different situation if the guy did his killing spree and then caught and faced all of these hurt angry people during a nasty trial, but he killed himself, wanting to end his life. Aside from the fact that he was really looney and it was hard to do something about it, do you sympethize with him? He suffered what lots of kids suffer during adolescence. Or is he just that sick an individual and he just planned this as revenge? Keep in mind that there were no connections between him and his victims, and he could have just wiped out his roommates and professors, including Nikki Giovanni. But it was just random. Just a thought.

Answer 1

I feel nothing for cho but my prayers go out to the victims families.

Answer 2

I feel for him because he was severely depressed and had mental issues. These are illness people. Sure he could have seeked help, and it seems that he went to consoling and was an out patient sometime in 2005. Frankly the signs were there and more steps should have been taken, if that meant convincing his family he need to be locked up in mental facility so be it.

I don’t condone what Cho did but it’s not like he is the first to go on a rampage like this. He was ill and unstable; you can’t say that about all people who do something like this. It’s a cold world people, and the fact is you don’t know when your time will come. Just think a week ago, those 32 people were all alive, and they never could have imagined a few days later they’d all be dead. Innocent people die everyday and sometimes the numbers are much great then just 32.

Answer 3

I have sympathy and resentment. I have sympathy for all of the families that have lost their children, brother, or sister in that massacre because the nation is saddened by their loss including Seung-Hui Cho, himself, as we must learn to forgive the choices he chose to make that fateful day in history. I feel resentment in the fact that no one tried to reach out to him harder than they did and no one tried to become friends with him. Some kids from his high school said that they made fun of him but never really reached out to him. I feel sorry for him because the media is acting like only a loner can commit what he's done to those people.
He did plan it but this wasn't his only option. I was a loner in school but I found a way out and became friends with people of all groups & surroundings. I guess he felt like they wouldn't understand him even if he would have came out of his shell, so he ended his life. The media is most definitely depicting him in the wrong light, people must remember that his parents are going through the same grief that the other parents are going through and that they're angry as well because everyone is angry with them about the wrong choice their son made.

Answer 4

I feel bad that he was bullied and teased earlier in his life. Obviously he didn't get enough therapy or psychological treatment he needed when it might have helped him, and perhaps this all could have been avoided. Unfortunately many kids get teased in school, but they don't become mass murderers. Nothing that happened to Cho justifies his actions! The only people I feel sympathy for are the shooting victims, the survivors, and all of their families. However, I do feel bad for Cho's family. They are feeling terrible and don't have any answers for what he did.

Answer 5

You know some of you have alot to learn in life, that everything isn't just black and white or one view. Most siutations in life lie in the grey field.
I feel emapthy and sympathy for cho and his victims and their respective families. What is so lacking in you that you can't see it?

I realize anger is the first step in grieving and that everyone grieves at a different rate , but if you're not directly affected, why are you so angry and vengeful?

Nobody wins in this situation, everyone is a loser .

Answer 6

Mostly resentment but a little sympathy as well. He was obviously a very disturbed young man; it is a shame he never got the help he so sorely needed.

My sympathies go primarily to the 32 innocent people who lost their lives in this tragedy, and to their families.

God Bless Virginia Tech.

Answer 7

I have no feeling about him one way or another. He was an intelligent man and could have gotten the help he needed to cope with his problems had he chosen to do so. The only feelings I have are feelings of sadness and sympathy for the real victims: the 32 people he murdered in cold blood!

Answer 8

I feel sorry for him, yes.
Because he kept on building a wall after a wall between his heart and the outer world, so finally he built a labyrinth he couldn't get out of. And no one was willing to get inside, because it was ooh so dark! ooh so dangerous. Right?Theseus lives only in a myth, the reality is Nikki Giovanni

Answer 9

anger, no sympathy, my life wasnt easy. whos is? EVERYONE has problems, and soem FAR worse then his and they didnt kill people. a bad life isnt an excuse nor does it justify killing innocent people. there is not rationale that makes this ok,a nd anyone who tries to justify it sucks

Answer 10

Its funny, everyone tries to find sympathy for evil Cho yet they are utterly outraged at Baldwin, who actually wants to be with his daughter which is rare these days. Cho is evil, period.