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Killing spree at VA Tech...

i can only speak for myself but i would rather know more about the killer than censor his 'manifesto'.

as with any major event (i.e. famous suicide, murder, bomb threats), there will be similarly-minded persons who will copycat the event. humans are inherently social animals, and that includes the sociopaths, murderers, etc.

im sure foreign adoptions went up after angelina jolie's first kid. same thing - for better or worse.
 
They really shouldn't talk about the killer so much, but more about ways in which it could have been prevented.

If they keep talking about the killer, people will get it into their heads that if they kill somebody they can be famous...
 
mcarnes said:
I think kitki just means that some will identify with Cho's purpose and mission as he talks about it in the tapes. Maybe hard for you to believe, but certainly some will glorify Cho more now and see him as a role model.
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I think that this would make a rather interesting novel by far.
 
Killyp said:
They really shouldn't talk about the killer so much, but more about ways in which it could have been prevented.

If they keep talking about the killer, people will get it into their heads that if they kill somebody they can be famous...
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But how do you know that he did it for fame?
 
princealfie said:
But how do you know that he did it for fame?
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Geez, that's a no-brainer! Uh, why do you think he sent his package to NBC news? He rightly assumed that what he was about to do would make for a great news story... with him right in the center of it all. His ulterior motive might have been to teach people a lesson by killing them, but what was really on his mind was a narcissistic desire to be noticed. He had been a closed off introvert all of his life; he had trouble being a part of mainstream and felt discarded and ignored. Too bad the media played into his hands and now all of his wishes have come true. The same thing can't be said for his victims.

I imagine that copy-cat crime would be less if the media referred to the person as "the killer" and didn't delve too much into turning him into an instant celebrity (as bad as that sounds). Just provide the facts about what happened, then focus on the victims. If you are only known as "the man who killed so and so," it's not quite as glamorous.
 
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mcarnes said:
I think kitki just means that some will identify with Cho's purpose and mission as he talks about it in the tapes. Maybe hard for you to believe, but certainly some will glorify Cho more now and see him as a role model.
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From personal experience and many can say the same as being a teen offers a lot of heartache for a fair number. Anywho... Those who would have at least partial understanding of where Cho felt he was coming from have already thought of doing such ( murdering / suicide ) but have decided against it, hopefully because it is pointless as it fixes the problems they are having by none.

THX1139 said:
Geez, that's a no-brainer! Uh, why do you think he sent his package to NBC news? He rightly assumed that what he was about to do would make for a great news story... with him right in the center of it all. His ulterior motive might have been to teach people a lesson by killing them, but what was really on his mind was a narcissistic desire to be noticed. He had been a closed off introvert all of his life; he had trouble being a part of mainstream and felt discarded and ignored. Too bad the media played into his hands and now all of his wishes have come true. The same thing can't be said for his victims.

I imagine that copy-cat crime would be less if the media referred to the person as "the killer" and didn't delve too much into turning him into an instant celebrity (as bad as that sounds). Just provide the facts about what happened, then focus on the victims. If you are only known as "the man who killed so and so," it's not quite as glamorous.
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I feel it is more likely he sent the package to a large television network because he wanted his intentions / pains to be blatantly known. It is fame but not the fame for the amount he killed. Fame was the passenger on his psychotropic ride. Those feeling as Cho was want the bullies to hopefully back-off and want to make it seem that not only is he helping himself but wants people to think that he was trying to help others and to not look upon his actions so severely negative.

Of course, this is illogical but in such a state of mind, logic seems to take a backseat.

Simply, such actions are from those who are weak and become unstable. It's hard for me to explain it in a fully understandable manner. I'm sometimes just not good at explaining my thoughts -- Stinks for me. ...It's not being able to face your problems correctly and you pursue what you feel as the best / quickest way to rid yourself of such.
 
MacCheetah3 said:
... Those feeling as Cho was want the bullies to hopefully back-off and want to make it seem that not only is he helping himself but wants people to think that he was trying to help others and to not look upon his actions so severely negative.

Of course, this is illogical but in such a state of mind, logic seems to take a backseat.
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Are you serious? Let's not forget he was crazy. I highly doubt he cared whether people would think his actions were too severe. If anything, he thought the opposite, or not at all. Are you trying to find a way to excuse his behavior because he was trying to help people who go through what he went through by setting an example?? :eek:
 
THX1139 said:
Geez, that's a no-brainer! Uh, why do you think he sent his package to NBC news? He rightly assumed that what he was about to do would make for a great news story... with him right in the center of it all. His ulterior motive might have been to teach people a lesson by killing them, but what was really on his mind was a narcissistic desire to be noticed.
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I think you are giving him too much credit. It seems clear he had psychiatric problems, and likely he had paranoid schizophrenia.

You can't use logic to decipher his motives or actions. In his mind, he certainly felt what he was doing was justified, but we can't know what hallucinations/delusions he was having at the time.

His "manifesto" was simply the ramblings of someone who was clinically insane.

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