with someone who would do this sort of thing. YES/NO, all answers welcome.
2007-04-22 08:53:55 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wow Fish, I don't believe it, an Atheist (me) having more compassion for their fellow man than a Christian. That's very interesting. Please e-mail me to explain.
2007-04-22 09:09:12 · update #1
Well, personally I believe that such a thing would indicate a personality disorder.
To bettierage: There is a reason for everything, including for criminals to kill, insane people do insane things, and terrorists to do their terrible deeds. But I don't think it is a good reason.
Hitler justified his killings of six million Jews and who knows how many other people, but his reasons were definitively NOT GOOD.
Consider that during the Nuremberg trial none of the top Nazis tried to mention those reasons
2007-04-22 08:59:49 · answer #1 · answered by Dios es amor 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes there is, but not for Cho himself as much as for the people he killed but the same people today who are saying that he should have gotten help a couple of years ago, are the same people that set up this "no-fault" system that we have. If anyone would have pushed for him to be helped then the first thought would have that, that person was picking on him. And that he was a minority. Minorities have an automatic
victim status and anytime anything is said about them or a problem comes up that is the first thing our liberal educators consider. But even all that being said I doubt that he would have been committed anyway because if we commit everyone that ever said they would commit suicide, there would be lots and lots of people committed. And I also think that 2 years ago that was all it was about. the "threat to others" was added on by the media and most of them have backed off of that now.
But I do have some sympathy for Cho to. If one looks at his ways and how he acted, there must have been constant demons running though his head. And I do not think that the whole story is out yet as to what other factors may have driven him to do what he did. Something else is there, that is for sure.
2007-04-22 16:22:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, he's ****** up, so what? It's someone elses responsibility to come up and make sure he's ok? What about all the starving children around the world. Millions are beaten and raped all the time. Who comforts them? Who helps them? There will always be bad seeds, it's natural selection at work. Its just too bad he took innocent people with him. Life is difficult for everyone, you need to be an adult and cope, and not throw a tantrum because others are better off than you are.
2007-04-22 16:03:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can try to understand why he did it, so that maybe a similar incident can be avoided in the future. Maybe you can feel sympathy for him on some level. But most depressed people do not gun down 33 other people. The bullying and depression does not excuse what he did.
2007-04-22 15:59:38 · answer #4 · answered by murnip 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure; I'm an antisocial college student, and I can understand at least some of the pressures he went through.
I don't think you can really ever understand exactly what was going through another person's mind, but I can empathise.
Of course, my level of empathy is something like "Yeah, I'd be pissed off too". One's right to be angry stops somewhere short of small arms fire.
2007-04-22 16:02:05 · answer #5 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
WHAT? Sympathy? Murder is a SIN in all religions. It is not even in self-defense or revenge for being oppressed.... If I was to judge him, no trial, execution immediately. I am a peaceful Muslim, but when it comes to crime, I prefer execution than a life sentence. Those who pull a trigger for fun, must not live to do it again.
2007-04-22 16:08:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not really sympathy, but I do wonder at the mental process, what was going through his head, what hurts, real or imaginary, he dealt with.
I'm not saying I understand, or even that it's a good one, but I'm sure there was a reason.
2007-04-22 15:58:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
After the fact? Not really.
Whether one is legally sane or insane, if you committ such a heinous act, you're no longer of any use to society.
Maybe God can "forgive" him, but not me.
2007-04-22 16:10:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can only imagine the sort of pain he must have been for years and years to drive him to his horrible actions. That being said his actions were totally heinous.
2007-04-22 16:04:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course. Simply imagine what his life must have been like on a daily basis to drive him to do such a thing.
2007-04-22 15:58:34 · answer #10 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋