Comments on: Random thoughts on the Va Tech massacre https://dfarq.homeip.net/random-thoughts-on-the-va-tech-massacre/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=random-thoughts-on-the-va-tech-massacre David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Mon, 14 May 2007 02:40:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/random-thoughts-on-the-va-tech-massacre/#comment-5687 Mon, 14 May 2007 02:40:26 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1609#comment-5687 In reply to Anonymous.

I don’t believe either one of you is a paranoid schizophrenic, so neither one of you have to worry about becoming a Seung-Hui Cho.
Even if you were ill, only an infinitesimal small percentage of the mentally ill kill.
If your friends think you are capable of this, change friends.

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By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/random-thoughts-on-the-va-tech-massacre/#comment-5684 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:36:36 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1609#comment-5684 You know ? I’ve been reading Dave’s blog for sometime, tho’ I don’t comment much. (I even, I think, started the "most popular" thread on those cheap laptops from Sotec 😉 This was a very personal post, and I feel sort of, I dunno, privileged that Dave chose to write it for us. And it astounds me that he could even contemplate being anywhere near this category.

But Dave, there are a lot more differences between you and that guy in Virginia than you might think. I’ve been bullied as a kid, felt leftout & weird as a teenager, and had problems figuring out women (I’m married, but still working on that last one 😉 But there’s got to be something deeper that drives someone to murder – otherwise they’d be locking up every introspective geek in the country*. So give yourself some extra credit, you deserve it 🙂

*Note: I’ll even admit that this was one of the first thoughts I had once we got some bare details of the situation. "Oh no, they’re gonna start blaming ‘loners’ again – like every introspective, abused geek out there is a vial of nitroglycerine waiting to be pushed off the table." It’s a shallow bit of "insight" that’s easy for media types to trot out.

Problem is that it’s a bunch of fallacious nonsense.

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