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RudynJack

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9. It is heartbreaking.

Reply to senseandsensibility (Original post)

Fri Aug 23, 2013, 01:41 AM

Aug 2013

We live in a culture that respects and glorifies violence. I wish there were a simple solution, but there isn't.

Teens shooting a jogger because they're bored? Teens beating an 89 year old man to death for god knows what reason? It's not even sporting. It's hunting.

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The senseless violence is making me cry. [View all] senseandsensibility Aug 2013 OP

Also, posted a few times today, a transgender woman in Harlem. NYC_SKP Aug 2013 #1

The desire to hurt someone perceived as weaker or different than you senseandsensibility Aug 2013 #2

Same here LittleBlue Aug 2013 #6

I have a strange belief I suppose. mick063 Aug 2013 #3

It's not such a strange belief though it is complicated. defacto7 Aug 2013 #4

That is an insightful post LittleBlue Aug 2013 #7

Yet all these took place in small town America. Republican ones at that. ErikJ Aug 2013 #12

100 times the population density of America might be a bit of a stretch Art_from_Ark Aug 2013 #17

If capitalism wasn't wasting rainy Aug 2013 #13

I am with you. defacto7 Aug 2013 #5

Thank you for understanding (or trying to) my horror senseandsensibility Aug 2013 #11

I see it as signs of the breaking point, social stress fractures. Half-Century Man Aug 2013 #8

gratuitious Chrisitianity bbashing. how sweet. cali Aug 2013 #14

It is heartbreaking. RudynJack Aug 2013 #9

I know that every human is capable of great autrocities and of wonderful deeds. Lobo27 Aug 2013 #10

perhaps but the degree to which that's true varies hugely cali Aug 2013 #15

to me, it is the age-old issue of sociopathy/psychopathy steve2470 Aug 2013 #16

Happy Birthday! senseandsensibility Aug 2013 #18

thanks ! nt steve2470 Aug 2013 #20

You should have been around a couple decades ago... snooper2 Aug 2013 #19