XPost: alt.support.shyness, alt.support.loneliness, alt.support.short   
   XPost: alt.fan.unabomber   
   From: BillShroyer@Pittsburgh.com   
      
   On 5 May 2007 02:08:17 -0700, tariq.1.rahim@spamgourmet.com wrote:   
      
   > he was silent and tormented, but nobody cared.   
      
   That's true, and that's tragic.  But he was old enough and intelligent   
   enough to know he needed help, from what I've read.  Once you are   
   capable of realizing something isn't right, that you need help or else   
   you might end up hurting someone, you lose all rights to sympathy when   
   you take someone else down with you.  That doesn't completely   
   exonerate those who deliberately provoked him, of course - such   
   senseless bullying should be stopped, we shouldn't even treat animals   
   that way let alone another human being.  But he's the only one who   
   pulled the trigger, and the only one who could've stopped himself   
   before it got that far.   
      
   I feel a bit torn when it comes to those who died who may have been   
   among his worse tormentors, though.  Having been the object of such   
   bullying, part of me feels a little sense of satisfaction knowing that   
   some abusers have their abuse blow up in their faces like that.  Yet   
   in the same vein, virtually all abusers are simply repeating things   
   that had been done to them at some point.  Our species is just one   
   whole senseless cycle of abuse, one generation right after the other,   
   all the way back to since well before we were even remotely human.  So   
   in that sense, even his abusers were "victims" of a sort.   
      
   But then as I said for him, his abusers are 100% responsible for   
   taking it out on someone else.  You only have the right to be called a   
   "victim" up to right before the point where you start dragging   
   innocent people into it with you.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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