This killer that went on a rampage shooting

[nomorenomore08]

85. "If somebody had just listened to the shooter and tried to understand him..." You're more optimistic

than I. Seems to me he was already so far round the bend, that intervening months or even years in advance may not have done much good.

And of course I realize that parsing someone's motive is not the same thing as "defending" them - I've argued as much myself. But my fear is that by trying to "understand" someone who murdered half a dozen innocent people, we may unintentionally lend validity and even justification to the sort of murderous rage and hatred that drove him to it. Frankly, we need to condemn the guy on some level, lest others think that psychotic woman-hating - and the atrocities it leads to - is somehow acceptable.

Frustration, anger, envy/jealousy, are all perfectly natural human feelings. What is not natural, nor acceptable, is the sociopathic level of entitlement which - at the extreme - leads to mass murder, but also in less extreme cases, leads to things like rape/murder threats directed at women who dare express an opinion.

The feelings of frustration etc. which I describe, and which I've admitted to experiencing myself, do not in any way justify mistreating - or expressing violent hatred for - other human beings. We need to make that absolutely clear above all else.