Ya, this new anon Troll is real special.
Well, if you read the archived information Rotten.com has on the Colombine shootings...it may shed a bit of light on what those two were and were not, Anon....one such thing being members of the so-called Trenchcoat Mafia.
My personal opinion is probably just as harsh, but not so unrealistic as the "Hero Theory".
The fact is, aside from all the things we would like to believe we are capable of...we are all still human beings. That gives us front row tickets to the big game called Survival of the Fittest. We are all susceptable to the urges of our natural biological traits. We are the most dominant species on the planet, as well as one of the most prolific ( I am excluding single celled organisms here) and we cant all be born with the right machinery and equipment to function as whats considered to be prized specimens of our species. This could be analyzed to infinity, but lets keep it simple.
People can be generally fucked up. In fact, lots of people can be...because, well, there are lots of people. There are millions who have had it worse than Eric or Dylan ever did, respectively. And probably a nice sized chunk of those people never hauled off and shot up a bunch of innocent bystanders because of it. For me personally, I dont give a shit what I have been through...everything can be dealt with and resolved on a personal level to some degree without falling to pieces. On the upside, its to our advantage as humans to be able to overlook our instincts to blow the fuck up.
If you end up just losing it and freaking out and offing yourself, well....I would be inclined to call that the weakest of resolutions given our place in nature, such as it is. In a clinical sense, it doesnt make you a bad person...it makes you a defective human being. But I think we ARE capable of, and have a greater responsibility to, our place in the big scheme of things.
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