On the other hand, if you are confronted with evidence that a certain treatment modality results in improvement of symptoms for some people with the condition and your response is to discount the reality of the results, you are actively harming those people who could benefit from the treatment.
That said, the question of âoeis it psychologicalâ is fucking ridiculous. Your brain and body arenâ(TM)t separated by a giant wall. Theyâ(TM)re not two different things that you happen to own. Theyâ(TM)re one and the same, with interlocking, reciprocating, and often indistinguishable areas of primary dominance.
The non-verbal parts of your brain know this intrinsically and use it for everything from homeopathic placebo effects to autonomic control of body systems. Your body knows this intrinsically and uses it for everything from pain response to orgasm. It seems the height of ignorant arrogance to stand in the way of using the mind to heal the body and using the body to heal the mind, especially when they are both affected by the illness.
Sure, once we have a vaccine for all forms of hepatitis, cancer, and HIV we can banish all of the people who won't take those vaccines to the same island as the people and their children who won't vaccinate their kids against polio, measles, rubella, etc.
If only there was a vaccine for the kind of stupidity that makes people incapable of using analogies without completely mangling the issue into something completely unfettered from reality. Sadly, I fear the administration of such a vaccine would have to be required by law. It would be folly to leave that kind of decision up to someone who can't properly understand the difference between diseases and conditions that have a viable vaccine and those that don't.
And, if you point out how the culture of your giant company is repulsive to women, is a functioning patriarchy that uses systemic and intrinsic sexism to abuse both sexes solely for the benefit of the company, and that changing this corporate culture to something healthy and egalitarian would not only cost the company vast amounts of money, but would also result in the loss of untold amounts of free labor the company currently benefits from, you could bet that said company will do everything they can to undermine and discredit someone so bold as point this out.
My great surprise was how so many on the “left” were so gleefully happy to help a corporation maintain a culture that diminishes the chances for women to participate and succeed. It makes sense that a company would maintain policies that prevent women from asking for raises and promotions. Said company gets to pay more capable workers less money while benefiting from their skill sets and leadership for free. It doesn’t make sense that self declared “feminists” would support a giant corporation in oppressing, exploiting, and intentionally underpaying women, and yet they are in this case.
Ideological problems are probably the reason. It is problematic that current ideologies behind some social change agents are so controlling that getting results which support the stated aims of the ideology will be rejected if the primary assumptions behind them are contrary to the ideology. Essentially, accomplishing the goals is not enough. The right thoughts must be used to get there, and without those thoughts, accomplishing the stated goals is worthless, or even worse, something to be undermined and discredited.
Yes! And not only that we have no way of knowing or predicting, but also that with complete knowledge of the antecedents the product is still unknowable.
Study hydrogen and oxygen independently forever and you will never be able to deduce the properties of water. Emergence is real, a result of chaos creating order, and each new order so creatied leading to new chaos which again engenders another level of order. Nested, interrelated, dependent, inseparable, non-linear, and nondeterministic.
This is intrinsic to the form of the universe and is scale independent.
You're assigning blame where there is none. The battle is not against sexism, racism, whateverism. This implies that there are sexists, racists, whateverists that are colluding and conspiring against their counterparts, keeping them down, ostracizing them, etc. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
In fact, the only people organizing to attack others are the people who have started calling other people sexists, racists, or whateversts. This is the problem with organizations set up to fight these problems. They are all predicated on the idea that there is some cabal they are fighting, and that each person they unmask and destroy is a win for them. This is the definition of a witch hunt. If you have ever been an outsider for any reason you know how this works. The hunters in the group always find what they are looking for. They always get their prey, they always get blood...even if it doesn't exist.
How I know definitively that this whole social justice thing is fundamentally flawed, broken, hypocritical, and a total lie? Because if you try to solve the problems of sexism and racism in any other way than the way they do, you are attacked as a sexist, a racist, a whateverist. Your contributions are not wanted and you are made into a pariah. You become the target, the problem, the issue at hand, rather than inequality or barriers to education, or people just flat not wanting to participate in a certain number of hours of work, or women not having to do certain things because even in spite of all the talk about it, chivalry is not yet dead.
See, that's how the Catholic church used to do things. Only through us can you reach God. Don't want to strengthen our power? No problem, we will kill you, or if you're too powerful, we'll ex-communicate you. Nazis, same thing. You want to save the people of Germany? If you're not with the Nazi party you are the enemy. You want to dissolve the barriers to minorities and women participating with parity in all educational areas? If you mention anything that is not 100% in line with what the political narrative is on the subject, you are the enemy. Doesn't matter if your goals are the same, or if your contribution is valid, factual, a step forward toward resolving the issue, if you don't pay respect to the narrative that white men are the problem with everything you run the risk of never getting another job, getting doxxed, death threats, violence, etc.
Get in line, don't think, don't speak unless you are repeating the party dogma...You fucking tools. Fight the problem, not an imaginary group of people you have to create through hate speech. To someone like me it reveals that you are just another weak subhuman, incapable of independent thought, looking for a community to belong to so you can gain power and willing to give up every shred of your own decency and individuality so you don't have to be alone.
It's the same old play that you sheep have been running since the second grade. You will do anything to be in a group. The group demands you sacrifice something important to get in. Once in you have to attack those outside the group.
I would ask you all to get off the playground and stop fighting imaginary enemies. Races are a fiction. Humans are all human. Sexes are a fiction. What it is to be human doesn't reside in the fucking plumbing in our bodies.
Like I said, I would ask, but you are children. Your fictions are your life. They feed some inadequacy in you that cannot be filled. You dance on the strings of your own deficiency and call it virtue.
The kind of mind that doesn't think like a cow in a herd is the kind that can make a substantial difference for mankind. Sadly, the human herd instinct is strong and results in attacks on anyone who is not sufficiently bovine.
All this conjecture about something you have no direct knowledge about. Seems disingenuous, and pardon my bluntness, and ignorant.
Show us the ads. Simple, easy, honest, the right thing to do.
And yet, no one who has access will do it. And no one who is really invested telling everyone they know the facts will show their work.
Funny, if it walks like bullshit, and talks like bullshit, and smells like bullshit itâ(TM)s the first thing you want to wallow in and throw at everyone else.
If the press was doing their job they would get the whole list and publish it. If Congress was doing their job they wouldnâ(TM)t require it be made public. If Facebook were doing their job they would post links to it on their site and make us watch ads to see it and track all of our behavior before, during, and after we read any of it.
If The People were doing their job they would demand to see them. So curious that no one is doing their job, and no one is talking about it. What the fuck is wrong with everyone?
I spoke to Mike Hawk and York Hunt and they reportedly had no issues with the filter. However, they were both fired immediately when asked to rehearse the phone script.
There is no vulgar or pejorative meaning in the unspeakable word designated by the letter after m, followed by the symbol between zero and equals sign on a standard QWERTY keyboard, followed by the word for word.
As evidence I submit to you this unprintable term is used frequently by many people daily without any vulgar or derogatory connotation, without repercussions, without social stigma, and with approbation from the receiver of the term.
In essence, the thing that cannot be said is no longer just a word. It is a cultural fabrication that allows a certain set of society an excuse to engage in socially unacceptable behavior with the approval of a significant contingent of society. It is an instrument of fear and control. Even the mere insinuation that the "wrong person" uttered it can destroy them financially, "justify" physical harm, and result in social ostracism (to group living primates this is tantamount to murder.)
In short, offense and reactions associated with a word is not indicative of the word. It is from the hearers, the gossipers about the hearing, and the social intentions of those people.
In short, don't blame a word when it is the misanthropic intentions of people that are the problem.
That's just about as wrong as you can get and still be wrong.
Offense is something that someone does to themselves. It is chosen, and actively so, though many who experience it have no idea they have chosen to be offended.
A word, a set of words, or even a whole slew of them cannot be offensive no matter their content. Offense does not exist in words or their meaning. It only exists in the mind of someone who chooses to be offended.
I hope this liberates you into a whole new realm of personal responsibility and power. Just think, you have been living in a world where external stimulus controls you completely and you were powerless to even feel and think for yourself. This basic misunderstanding about reality turned your mind, the most subtle and complex of instruments known to humanity, into a mechanism so simple it approximates nothing more than a deadfall or a mousetrap.
Now that you know that you are the author of your own offense and that words do not control your emotional state you truly have self determination in this area for the first time in your life.
You just said: An armed people was to prevent a standing army from becoming a tyrannical force against the people.
Now that we have a powerful standing army (which has the ability to become a tyrannical force against the people) we should make sure the people have no weapons and no right to defend themselves.
I can't even begin to decipher how you tortured your mind into this conclusion. You should be embarrassed.
Exactly! This also means that if the meaning of the words change in common usage the changed definitions must be discarded and the original meaning of the words must be used.
If this were not the case and you asked someone to "visit" you they could beat the living shit out of you and you would have no defense in court as you specifically asked for them to beat you.
Unfortunately, modern people are incredibly self centered these days and cannot imagine that word usage, grammar, syntax definitions of words, and the intelligence of the intended audience could have changed in 200 years.
Unfortunately, modern people believe that the one receiving speech gets to determine the meaning of the speech, regardless of any and all explicitly formal and supported definitions or any exact meaning contained in those words.
Unfortunately, modern people are completely immune to commentaries given by the people who wrote the constitution where they define both implicitly and explicitly the words used, their meaning at the time, the circumstances for that choice of words, the effects these words were intended to have on the population, and the exact meaning of the whole sentence.
The US gets compared to monolith cultures that have been socially and ethnically similar for longer than the US has existed. It also gets compared to countries indelicately called shitholes by the likes of Dick Durbin.
The US gets compared to every country. No need to complain or call down the god of hypocrisy in condemnation of the comparisons. Contradiction and hypocrisy is the natural state of the political creature. You of all people should know this.
Agreed and well put. it is this line of reasoninig that has led me to believe that America is, more than anything else, a disguised fascist country. No, you crazy/. kids, relax, its not the kind of hysterical fascism you see when you see white people going about their daily lives. I'm talking about the historical, textbook, economic system kind of fascism where corporations are part of the government.
Look objectively at the regulation system in the US for any large industry. It is more like a government/corporate created "walled garden" preventing competition and ensuring the livelihood and immortality of the companies than a method of protecting the people from corporations. Look at the system of subsidies provided to our energy producers, whether that energy goes into cars or into our bodies. Think objectively about how often Google met with the White House during Obama's tenure.
There are lines of separation between giant corporations and government in the US. They are drawn up on paper to maintain the appearance of separation, but they only really exist in the deluded minds of the proletariat.
As an American I have frequently lamented our public education system and pointed to other countries as models of education systems that should be emulated.
Prithee, which country are you a product of? I am deeply interested by your manifest intellect. In particular interest is the complete lack of political education and critical thinking skills you have been trained in. I would like to study the obviously dysfunctional non-American education system that created American-like results.
Have nothing to do with the human tendency to freak out and start killing people.
There's a book that has stories in it that are thousands of years old. It has one in it about some of the first humans to exist after the cognitive revolution. Two brothers to be exact. One of them killed the other because of his own thoughts.
I know its hard, but think about that. This was not an accident. Nor was it the result of retribution or revenge. Insult was not given, nor was there a scale to balance. One dude simply had some fucked up shit going on in his head and he decided he was justified in killing the other dude.
The lesson here is simple. Humans, as a species, have been killing people for no fucking reason for as long as we can collectively remember. Blame is often placed on many things, like guns, religion, and capitalism for instance. The lesson I have learned about this is simple as well: some people will use murder as a means to advance their own agendas.
As uncaring as murderers are, they have counterparts who never commit murder but who are just as uncaring. They are the people like you who shift blame to something they have a problem with. How utterly human.
If this guy is later revealed to be a person who is on psychotropic substances or who recently stopped taking said substances, like many other spree shooters, what will you say about mental health support then?
With so many killers associated with drugs like Prozac, and with so many people saying we need better mental health support to stop spree killers, I wonder if people actually know what the fuck they are talking about.
What? Have you seen all of the court decisions eroding our 4th amendment?
Oh, no...I guess you haven't. You're probably another member of the vast masses who call the Constitution a "living document." Our government loves that saying. IT means two things: one, it's mutable for their ends and purposes and you, citizen, support and trust them to do whatever they want. Two, it can be killed.
I have a hard time believing that Americans are stupid enough to give their government the political impetus and fiat to reinterpret the Constitution. And yet, here we are after 8 years of a president who fully supported top secret interpretations of the Constitution which we, the People, were never privy to because we don't have clearance.
Every damn time the American people try to use the law to bludgeon their fellow Americans into submission and punish them for voting a different way the government gains more power over all of us. Partisan morons keep ramping it up, their rage and fervor giving the government even more leeway to fuck all of us out of our "inalienable" rights.
And the sickest part is no one says "STOP!" to the government, they just say "It's the other party's fault!" and let the shit show of constitutional destruction continue. God help us all. Please, save us from ourselves. We're obviously too immature and imbecilic to maintain a healthy republic or even act intelligently in our own self interest. A large number of us are too dedicated to destroying people they don't agree with to realize they are destroying all of us.
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On the other hand, if you are confronted with evidence that a certain treatment modality results in improvement of symptoms for some people with the condition and your response is to discount the reality of the results, you are actively harming those people who could benefit from the treatment.
That said, the question of âoeis it psychologicalâ is fucking ridiculous. Your brain and body arenâ(TM)t separated by a giant wall. Theyâ(TM)re not two different things that you happen to own. Theyâ(TM)re one and the same, with interlocking, reciprocating, and often indistinguishable areas of primary dominance.
The non-verbal parts of your brain know this intrinsically and use it for everything from homeopathic placebo effects to autonomic control of body systems. Your body knows this intrinsically and uses it for everything from pain response to orgasm. It seems the height of ignorant arrogance to stand in the way of using the mind to heal the body and using the body to heal the mind, especially when they are both affected by the illness.
This is not capitalism. It's corporatism or disguised fascism.
Sure, once we have a vaccine for all forms of hepatitis, cancer, and HIV we can banish all of the people who won't take those vaccines to the same island as the people and their children who won't vaccinate their kids against polio, measles, rubella, etc.
If only there was a vaccine for the kind of stupidity that makes people incapable of using analogies without completely mangling the issue into something completely unfettered from reality. Sadly, I fear the administration of such a vaccine would have to be required by law. It would be folly to leave that kind of decision up to someone who can't properly understand the difference between diseases and conditions that have a viable vaccine and those that don't.
And, if you point out how the culture of your giant company is repulsive to women, is a functioning patriarchy that uses systemic and intrinsic sexism to abuse both sexes solely for the benefit of the company, and that changing this corporate culture to something healthy and egalitarian would not only cost the company vast amounts of money, but would also result in the loss of untold amounts of free labor the company currently benefits from, you could bet that said company will do everything they can to undermine and discredit someone so bold as point this out.
My great surprise was how so many on the “left” were so gleefully happy to help a corporation maintain a culture that diminishes the chances for women to participate and succeed. It makes sense that a company would maintain policies that prevent women from asking for raises and promotions. Said company gets to pay more capable workers less money while benefiting from their skill sets and leadership for free. It doesn’t make sense that self declared “feminists” would support a giant corporation in oppressing, exploiting, and intentionally underpaying women, and yet they are in this case.
Ideological problems are probably the reason. It is problematic that current ideologies behind some social change agents are so controlling that getting results which support the stated aims of the ideology will be rejected if the primary assumptions behind them are contrary to the ideology. Essentially, accomplishing the goals is not enough. The right thoughts must be used to get there, and without those thoughts, accomplishing the stated goals is worthless, or even worse, something to be undermined and discredited.
Yes! And not only that we have no way of knowing or predicting, but also that with complete knowledge of the antecedents the product is still unknowable.
Study hydrogen and oxygen independently forever and you will never be able to deduce the properties of water. Emergence is real, a result of chaos creating order, and each new order so creatied leading to new chaos which again engenders another level of order. Nested, interrelated, dependent, inseparable, non-linear, and nondeterministic.
This is intrinsic to the form of the universe and is scale independent.
Why do we cater to drug addicts like this? Alcohol is a frightful and messy drug, more destructive than any other known.
We should be very lucky if global climate change makes alcohol harder to produce.
Yeah, about that...
People went from gathering abundant and easily sourced food for a couple of hours a day to working in fields for 12 hours a day.
A bad trade if you research it.
You're assigning blame where there is none. The battle is not against sexism, racism, whateverism. This implies that there are sexists, racists, whateverists that are colluding and conspiring against their counterparts, keeping them down, ostracizing them, etc. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
In fact, the only people organizing to attack others are the people who have started calling other people sexists, racists, or whateversts. This is the problem with organizations set up to fight these problems. They are all predicated on the idea that there is some cabal they are fighting, and that each person they unmask and destroy is a win for them. This is the definition of a witch hunt. If you have ever been an outsider for any reason you know how this works. The hunters in the group always find what they are looking for. They always get their prey, they always get blood...even if it doesn't exist.
How I know definitively that this whole social justice thing is fundamentally flawed, broken, hypocritical, and a total lie? Because if you try to solve the problems of sexism and racism in any other way than the way they do, you are attacked as a sexist, a racist, a whateverist. Your contributions are not wanted and you are made into a pariah. You become the target, the problem, the issue at hand, rather than inequality or barriers to education, or people just flat not wanting to participate in a certain number of hours of work, or women not having to do certain things because even in spite of all the talk about it, chivalry is not yet dead.
See, that's how the Catholic church used to do things. Only through us can you reach God. Don't want to strengthen our power? No problem, we will kill you, or if you're too powerful, we'll ex-communicate you. Nazis, same thing. You want to save the people of Germany? If you're not with the Nazi party you are the enemy. You want to dissolve the barriers to minorities and women participating with parity in all educational areas? If you mention anything that is not 100% in line with what the political narrative is on the subject, you are the enemy. Doesn't matter if your goals are the same, or if your contribution is valid, factual, a step forward toward resolving the issue, if you don't pay respect to the narrative that white men are the problem with everything you run the risk of never getting another job, getting doxxed, death threats, violence, etc.
Get in line, don't think, don't speak unless you are repeating the party dogma...You fucking tools. Fight the problem, not an imaginary group of people you have to create through hate speech. To someone like me it reveals that you are just another weak subhuman, incapable of independent thought, looking for a community to belong to so you can gain power and willing to give up every shred of your own decency and individuality so you don't have to be alone.
It's the same old play that you sheep have been running since the second grade. You will do anything to be in a group. The group demands you sacrifice something important to get in. Once in you have to attack those outside the group.
I would ask you all to get off the playground and stop fighting imaginary enemies. Races are a fiction. Humans are all human. Sexes are a fiction. What it is to be human doesn't reside in the fucking plumbing in our bodies.
Like I said, I would ask, but you are children. Your fictions are your life. They feed some inadequacy in you that cannot be filled. You dance on the strings of your own deficiency and call it virtue.
The kind of mind that doesn't think like a cow in a herd is the kind that can make a substantial difference for mankind. Sadly, the human herd instinct is strong and results in attacks on anyone who is not sufficiently bovine.
All this conjecture about something you have no direct knowledge about. Seems disingenuous, and pardon my bluntness, and ignorant.
Show us the ads. Simple, easy, honest, the right thing to do.
And yet, no one who has access will do it. And no one who is really invested telling everyone they know the facts will show their work.
Funny, if it walks like bullshit, and talks like bullshit, and smells like bullshit itâ(TM)s the first thing you want to wallow in and throw at everyone else.
If the press was doing their job they would get the whole list and publish it. If Congress was doing their job they wouldnâ(TM)t require it be made public. If Facebook were doing their job they would post links to it on their site and make us watch ads to see it and track all of our behavior before, during, and after we read any of it.
If The People were doing their job they would demand to see them. So curious that no one is doing their job, and no one is talking about it. What the fuck is wrong with everyone?
I spoke to Mike Hawk and York Hunt and they reportedly had no issues with the filter. However, they were both fired immediately when asked to rehearse the phone script.
Anger and offense are a child's toy.
There is no vulgar or pejorative meaning in the unspeakable word designated by the letter after m, followed by the symbol between zero and equals sign on a standard QWERTY keyboard, followed by the word for word.
As evidence I submit to you this unprintable term is used frequently by many people daily without any vulgar or derogatory connotation, without repercussions, without social stigma, and with approbation from the receiver of the term.
In essence, the thing that cannot be said is no longer just a word. It is a cultural fabrication that allows a certain set of society an excuse to engage in socially unacceptable behavior with the approval of a significant contingent of society. It is an instrument of fear and control. Even the mere insinuation that the "wrong person" uttered it can destroy them financially, "justify" physical harm, and result in social ostracism (to group living primates this is tantamount to murder.)
In short, offense and reactions associated with a word is not indicative of the word. It is from the hearers, the gossipers about the hearing, and the social intentions of those people.
In short, don't blame a word when it is the misanthropic intentions of people that are the problem.
That's just about as wrong as you can get and still be wrong.
Offense is something that someone does to themselves. It is chosen, and actively so, though many who experience it have no idea they have chosen to be offended.
A word, a set of words, or even a whole slew of them cannot be offensive no matter their content. Offense does not exist in words or their meaning. It only exists in the mind of someone who chooses to be offended.
I hope this liberates you into a whole new realm of personal responsibility and power. Just think, you have been living in a world where external stimulus controls you completely and you were powerless to even feel and think for yourself. This basic misunderstanding about reality turned your mind, the most subtle and complex of instruments known to humanity, into a mechanism so simple it approximates nothing more than a deadfall or a mousetrap.
Now that you know that you are the author of your own offense and that words do not control your emotional state you truly have self determination in this area for the first time in your life.
How does it feel to be free?
Are you absolutely insane?
I'm not being insulting, I'm serious.
You just said:
An armed people was to prevent a standing army from becoming a tyrannical force against the people.
Now that we have a powerful standing army (which has the ability to become a tyrannical force against the people) we should make sure the people have no weapons and no right to defend themselves.
I can't even begin to decipher how you tortured your mind into this conclusion. You should be embarrassed.
Exactly! This also means that if the meaning of the words change in common usage the changed definitions must be discarded and the original meaning of the words must be used.
If this were not the case and you asked someone to "visit" you they could beat the living shit out of you and you would have no defense in court as you specifically asked for them to beat you.
Unfortunately, modern people are incredibly self centered these days and cannot imagine that word usage, grammar, syntax definitions of words, and the intelligence of the intended audience could have changed in 200 years.
Unfortunately, modern people believe that the one receiving speech gets to determine the meaning of the speech, regardless of any and all explicitly formal and supported definitions or any exact meaning contained in those words.
Unfortunately, modern people are completely immune to commentaries given by the people who wrote the constitution where they define both implicitly and explicitly the words used, their meaning at the time, the circumstances for that choice of words, the effects these words were intended to have on the population, and the exact meaning of the whole sentence.
Unfortunately, people are intentionally stupid.
The US gets compared to monolith cultures that have been socially and ethnically similar for longer than the US has existed. It also gets compared to countries indelicately called shitholes by the likes of Dick Durbin.
The US gets compared to every country. No need to complain or call down the god of hypocrisy in condemnation of the comparisons. Contradiction and hypocrisy is the natural state of the political creature. You of all people should know this.
Agreed and well put. it is this line of reasoninig that has led me to believe that America is, more than anything else, a disguised fascist country. No, you crazy /. kids, relax, its not the kind of hysterical fascism you see when you see white people going about their daily lives. I'm talking about the historical, textbook, economic system kind of fascism where corporations are part of the government.
Look objectively at the regulation system in the US for any large industry. It is more like a government/corporate created "walled garden" preventing competition and ensuring the livelihood and immortality of the companies than a method of protecting the people from corporations. Look at the system of subsidies provided to our energy producers, whether that energy goes into cars or into our bodies. Think objectively about how often Google met with the White House during Obama's tenure.
There are lines of separation between giant corporations and government in the US. They are drawn up on paper to maintain the appearance of separation, but they only really exist in the deluded minds of the proletariat.
As an American I have frequently lamented our public education system and pointed to other countries as models of education systems that should be emulated.
Prithee, which country are you a product of? I am deeply interested by your manifest intellect. In particular interest is the complete lack of political education and critical thinking skills you have been trained in. I would like to study the obviously dysfunctional non-American education system that created American-like results.
Care to elucidate me?
You just laid a major burn on every Democrat in America.
Have nothing to do with the human tendency to freak out and start killing people.
There's a book that has stories in it that are thousands of years old. It has one in it about some of the first humans to exist after the cognitive revolution. Two brothers to be exact. One of them killed the other because of his own thoughts.
I know its hard, but think about that. This was not an accident. Nor was it the result of retribution or revenge. Insult was not given, nor was there a scale to balance. One dude simply had some fucked up shit going on in his head and he decided he was justified in killing the other dude.
The lesson here is simple. Humans, as a species, have been killing people for no fucking reason for as long as we can collectively remember. Blame is often placed on many things, like guns, religion, and capitalism for instance. The lesson I have learned about this is simple as well: some people will use murder as a means to advance their own agendas.
As uncaring as murderers are, they have counterparts who never commit murder but who are just as uncaring. They are the people like you who shift blame to something they have a problem with. How utterly human.
If this guy is later revealed to be a person who is on psychotropic substances or who recently stopped taking said substances, like many other spree shooters, what will you say about mental health support then?
With so many killers associated with drugs like Prozac, and with so many people saying we need better mental health support to stop spree killers, I wonder if people actually know what the fuck they are talking about.
The main thing is that some of us blame whole groups of people for the actions of unrelated individuals.
You wouldn't know anything about that though, would you?
What? Have you seen all of the court decisions eroding our 4th amendment?
Oh, no...I guess you haven't. You're probably another member of the vast masses who call the Constitution a "living document." Our government loves that saying. IT means two things: one, it's mutable for their ends and purposes and you, citizen, support and trust them to do whatever they want. Two, it can be killed.
I have a hard time believing that Americans are stupid enough to give their government the political impetus and fiat to reinterpret the Constitution. And yet, here we are after 8 years of a president who fully supported top secret interpretations of the Constitution which we, the People, were never privy to because we don't have clearance.
Every damn time the American people try to use the law to bludgeon their fellow Americans into submission and punish them for voting a different way the government gains more power over all of us. Partisan morons keep ramping it up, their rage and fervor giving the government even more leeway to fuck all of us out of our "inalienable" rights.
And the sickest part is no one says "STOP!" to the government, they just say "It's the other party's fault!" and let the shit show of constitutional destruction continue. God help us all. Please, save us from ourselves. We're obviously too immature and imbecilic to maintain a healthy republic or even act intelligently in our own self interest. A large number of us are too dedicated to destroying people they don't agree with to realize they are destroying all of us.