If your own life is so miserable that you see no way out, if you are so depressed that there seems to be no other solution, if no one understands you, and you are locked in a prison of misery and pain, then go ahead, and take the easy way out. Pick up the gun and shoot yourself. That is your own choice to make, though it is a stupid and cowardly one. But of course, no one said we must do the right and honorary thing in this world.
But to take someone else's life as well- that is just plain selfish. Who gave you the right to kill? To murder innocent children, teachers, students? Who told you that it is ok, in your anger, to pick up a gun and shoot, to run and hunt, to search until there is no one left but you? And in the end, you finish your own life too. So why? Why must you be so selfish?
Let them live. What have they done to you? Looked at you in the wrong way? Sneered when you walked by? Or worse, looked through you as if you were not there at all. No one likes to be ignored, least of all you. It hurts, yes. And you have this need for revenge. For that ultimately satisfying feeling of making someone else share your pain. You do not want to be alone in your suffering. So you force others to feel it too. To hurt so bad that they have blood pouring out of them. To kneel on the floor in excruciating pain, till the life drains out of them. And that makes you feel better?? To watch someone else suffer, as you have?
For you it is already too late. If you do not want to get help, to stretch out a hand and let someone know that you are in pain, then that is your decision. You must account for your own actions, and no one can help you but yourself.
But to take someone else's life too- who gave you that right??
It really is the ultimate example of pure selfishness to take a life w/ out cause. Unfortunately there are those who are sick and get some sort of gratification or a rush from it. btw what prompted you to write this? something on the news?
ReplyDeleteSome people simply don't deserve to live. In some of these murder cases the perpetrator was extremely harassed by the victims in the past. What I think is the real lesson of these stories is be nice to everyone, because you never know when some semi-insane guy's gonna' want to kill you because you snubbed him. Even the most disturbed people usually don't want to kill people who were very nice to them. Some of these guys just can't take being "victims" of unpleasant people anymore. That, and, like I said, the murderers are usually pretty insane and haven't got much to live for. Anyway, the murderer usually feels that the sacrifice of these victims can serve as a sufficient deterrent to insensitive people in the future... ...I don't agree with this logic, but there IS some logic to it..
ReplyDeleteaye, even if they were taking lives in order to act as a "deterrent to insensitive people in the future" that would still be a sense of gratification to the killer. However, although many of these such killers are the product of some sort of external aggravation, their act of killing is an expression of vengeance on society rather than an attempt to make an example. Take for instance the recent shootings of those women at the gym by that disturbed man
ReplyDelete"...that would still be a sense of gratification to the killer"- But his gratification would be a gratification of justice.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what happened by this gym, but what I do know is that sometimes society calls for just vengance, as White society seems to produce very mean people, whose death many people would see as beneficial to the world.
Anyway, the murderer usually feels that the sacrifice of these victims can serve as a sufficient deterrent to insensitive people in the future... ...-
ReplyDeletethen why not live himself? why kill himself after?
staple- i saw on the news something abt the aniversary of one of these shootings in a public school, like 9 years ago by 2 fellow students and it got me thinking.
Altie- He kills himself because reaching the point in which he kills innocent people was already the last straw for him. Afterward, be it because of guilt, fear, or simply because he planed to kill himself anyway, he takes his own life. However, most serial killers do not take their own lives and they kill only people who fit a certain profile, which makes their motives fall under the lines of simple mental instability, or a screwed sense of justice
ReplyDeleteso both types kill for a reason. one of them is just out of anger, or other emotional capacities that are out of the norm. And serial killers kill for a though out, logical (on their part) reason.
ReplyDeleteneither are good. but if you are at the point when you want to kill yourself, there is no reason to kill others too. it is a deranged thought to want to kill others as well.
a serial killer doesnt kill himself, because he feels that killing people is his job/mission. if he were gone, he's have no purpose anymore.
none of it makes sense.
"if he were gone, he's have no purpose anymore"
ReplyDeletehmm perhaps that is the very reason they do so. Once they've vented whatever it is on others, they realize they do not serve a purpose. Killing others is not a product of his own desire to die, rather suicide is a consequence of his murderous actions
"...one of them is just out of anger, or other emotional capacities that are out of the norm"- I'm thinking of the Virginia Tech kid; first of all, as I'm saying, it's not "anger", but a need to put the world right, for as long as the unjust and haughty roam the earth a claim can be brought against G-d and the justness of His world.
ReplyDeleteThey kill themselves afterwards both..well, because they're suicidal, and after they're dead there won't be a sense of 'punishing the perpetrator would bring justice', but also because their sense of justice doesn't register in real-world courts, and they'd have to wallow away in jail for another 5,000 years, so...
if i was a killer, maybe i would understand their deranged thought process better. but alas, i do not.
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