So if you had some roommates who would follow you around online and warn everyone they could that Scott has guns and a short temper, there would be nothing wrong with that?sschaula wrote:But the fact is that those roommates did nothing wrong.
Where are you getting that? Perhaps the same place you got this:sschaula wrote:He had no sense of others, but only of himself. No compassion or empathy...he was just an endless pit of selfishness. He had no capacity for pain.
I agree that the guy's attitude made him seem like an asshole, but the hat? That's as far-fetched as all those projections on Cho.sschaula wrote:That's not a joke. I'm being serious about the hat thing. In my experience only assholes wear them.
Like the truth about hats and how it's okay to stalk your roommate?sschaula wrote:Seek the truth above all else.
We don't know the whole truth yet. Granted you did say "the truth so far" - but there is no such thing as "truth so far" - there is only one truth. All we have now are stories, and we will never have the whole perspective of the shooter.sschaula wrote:The truth so far is that no one did anything to him, and that they actually tried to reach out to him.
So my position is like that of a demon because I can see psychological possibilities rather than just swallow exactly how the media is portraying him?sschaula wrote:Playing devil's advocate in an argument like this only demonizes your position.
Never mind answering those. I was just trying to show some possible psychological motivations for his behavior, and you're attached to the good guy/bad guy mindset.
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