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Old 04-19-2007, 08:13 PM   #5
Aragorn1
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Join Date: July 3, 2001
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TBH all these things, the news, games etc are just triggers for an underlying problem, often I'd assume a mental illness or abnormality. In my unqualified opinion if these events didn't trigger the underlying condition, or at least this sort of manifestation of it, some other trigger would have.

Ultimately you cannot remove all such triggers, therefore it is pointless to censure life in the hope of preventing such events, in the process reducing the freedoms of the unaffected majority.

It is the underlying condition that needs treating, not the short term triggers.

(This is just my opinion, amateur psychology if you like, but I at least think its plausible in many cases.)
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