Short form: The common phrases "suicide by cop" and "going postal" did not exist a generation ago.
Joel Send a noteboard - 18/12/2012 09:14:51 PM
If you believe that in the last 30 years Americans have become more selfish, self-absorbed and materialistic I am not going to argue it. If you want to point out that our sense of community has been eroded and the traditional support of churches is waning along with traditional churches themselves, I am not going to argue it. If you're going to go on and try to score cheap political points by using it to make some radical socioeconomic or political point, then you're full of shit and we both know it - I will be content to know, for you to know I know, and to know you know I know.
However, no one's going to argue with you if your point is just that people are petty and selfish.
However, no one's going to argue with you if your point is just that people are petty and selfish.
I submit that change has less to do with declines in US mental healthcare or Church influence in that period than with the growing number of people "not economically viable," and Americas increasing willingness to ignore them as expendable (or liquidate them as liabilities.) Communities do not do that with (to) their members, and since Americans' willingness to do so is directly proportional to their self-proclaimed Chrisitianity, I do not believe the Church the problem, only another victim.
I think it is the same problem we see in many Third World warzones, which is deeply shameful in a country like the US. Keep telling people life is cheap and they start to believe you; keep telling them THEIR specific life is worthless and they start to hate you. Not a good combination, especially when the foundation is "do whatever it takes to get ahead and success will earn societys pardon of any crimes." Social justice is ultimately a question of survival as much as of morality.
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20 children killed in latest US school shooting 
- 15/12/2012 12:35:42 AM
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- 15/12/2012 12:35:42 AM
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i know 2 people with kids there, one of them has lost their 5 year old. this is too close to home
- 15/12/2012 12:39:26 AM
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I lived 20 mins from there. I'm shocked. I'm even heading back there in 4 days....
- 15/12/2012 02:08:28 PM
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Maybe when we stop making media celebrities out of these murderers..
- 16/12/2012 05:36:19 PM
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Nope, won't happen.
- 16/12/2012 06:37:11 PM
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For each of those 30 years sociologists have warned of the growing danger of growing alienation.
- 16/12/2012 10:05:28 PM
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I don't know what you mean, though.
- 17/12/2012 05:53:44 PM
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I dunno, your response suggests you figured it out pretty quickly.
- 18/12/2012 05:08:12 PM
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Short form: The common phrases "suicide by cop" and "going postal" did not exist a generation ago.
- 18/12/2012 09:14:51 PM
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if they were after fame, they would probably all have tried to stay alive after killing everyone
- 16/12/2012 10:01:50 PM
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One need not be living to be famous.
- 16/12/2012 10:08:12 PM
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actually, i'm pretty sure you're wrong on this
- 17/12/2012 05:38:07 PM
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"Live fast, die young and leave a good-looking corpse," "it's better to burn out than fade away" etc
- 18/12/2012 03:25:23 PM
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what do your examples all have in common?
- 18/12/2012 08:42:59 PM
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I frequently confuse that detail of Hinckleys shooting with Chapmans, sorry.
- 18/12/2012 08:59:25 PM
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Chapman wasn't a mass murderer, though. Neither was Hinckley.
- 20/12/2012 05:15:23 AM
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True, but it does demonstrate how easily and frequently notoriety motivates shootings.
- 26/12/2012 07:22:37 PM
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