Aftermath of the Virginia Tech massacre

[fpb]

So the murderous moron who killed 32 innocent people because he felt like it sent a video detailing his rotten little excuses before he did the only right thing and killed himself. All right. But can anyone give me any reason why TV and radio news broadcasts should subject us to extensive excerpts from his ugly screed, from which we can draw neither education nor pleasure?

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[redcoast.livejournal.com]

It was predictable.

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

And you know what? All of Cho's stuff is boring and cliche. That's what strikes me the most about madness; it's not interesting, creatively.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

That abuts on my point. There is nothing to be learned - at least, by the ordinary person - from this "document". A conference of psychiatrists might usefully study it, but most people are not psychiatrists, and cannot expect to take an interest in the evidence of mental illness, which is mostly very boring. It satisfies a very trivial curiosity, one that has probably died within a minute of the start of the tape, and does not even heighten our disgust at the moron himself - the very knowledge of what he did should have been enough for any sane person to know what to think and what to feel.