Making Sense of Evil (Virginia Tech Massacre)

Making sense of a senseless act is futile. It's like trying to make sense of the garbage your printer spits out when your computer has the wrong driver. You can go over the characters time and again trying to figure out what this phenomenon means. You might even think you've discerned bits of a pattern here and there. But you're getting nowhere. You can't make sense of nonsense. The only thing to do is fix the driver.This guy had a head full of loose wiring. No act emerging from a head like that makes sense. The head itself needed repairs.It didn't get the needed repairs. In the event, the only thing to do was to remove the threat, one way or another, to protect everyone else. That didn't happen, either.Getting either of these things done in time was a tall order for the people involved.'Monster' and 'devil' are words that emerge from anger. Anger is a normal response when something we love is threatened. The words do not represent objective analysis. They represent the depth of threat the speaker feels. This often correlates to the depth of love the speaker feels for what is threatened. A threat looks diabolical when the thing being threatened is sacred.If religious people want to help right now, let them ask what they can do to be of service to people in pain.________Edited by Archer Opterix, : punctuation.

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ArcherAll species are transitional.

How about this as a suggestion?It is human nature to love. We cherish certain things.Evil is that which threatens what we love.When something is absolutely sacred to us, the thing that threatens to take it away appears absolutely evil.___

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ArcherAll species are transitional.

It's a waste of time to look for reason in the irrational.All the rants and videos and manifestos are very little help in understanding 'why' someone does something like this.The place to look is in the brain chemistry. There's the 'why.'_____LiveScience: 'Pundits Clueless'
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ArcherAll species are transitional.

The worst tormentors of humankind usually see themselves as victims.Just an observation.

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ArcherAll species are transitional.