Let me be clear, I don't classify as stupid everybody who holds a different opinion than me. I may think they are mis-informed, or have based their opinions on faulty data, or that they aren't looking at all the data, or that their logic based on that data is flawed.
I can buy that some people think the murders would have been prevented if we kept tighter controls on guns, or had better mental health screening in place or if we took a good hard look at how our culture romanticizes violence. I may not agree with them, but I don't think they are stupid.
OTOH, people who think it's because he listened to Metallica and played GTA? Stupid. People who think it's because he posted his profile to a website full of fourteen year-olds pretending to be vampires. Whoo-wee Stupid!
Unfortunately the latter group who seem to have a public voice - sometimes to the point where it interferes with of the former to have any kind of intelligent discussion. And I really don't get that.
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Date: 2006-09-27 10:02 pm (UTC)I can buy that some people think the murders would have been prevented if we kept tighter controls on guns, or had better mental health screening in place or if we took a good hard look at how our culture romanticizes violence. I may not agree with them, but I don't think they are stupid.
OTOH, people who think it's because he listened to Metallica and played GTA? Stupid. People who think it's because he posted his profile to a website full of fourteen year-olds pretending to be vampires. Whoo-wee Stupid!
Unfortunately the latter group who seem to have a public voice - sometimes to the point where it interferes with of the former to have any kind of intelligent discussion. And I really don't get that.