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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: aldo_14 on May 08, 2006, 04:16:13 am
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http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/columbine-super-massacre-rpg/columbine-survivortalks-about-columbine-rpg-171966.php
This is interesting, especially because it's someone able to offer a genuine, honest perspective upon this sort of thing (i.e. a 16-bit style RPG enacting the Columbine massacre) rather than some knee-jerk legislator.
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It's quite refreshing to hear an educated opinion on the subject from someone who should be giving their opinion on the subject, rather that some loud-mouth politician or overzealous moron. Good find :yes:
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i gotta get ahold of that game :D
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Something that should have been said long ago:
"Every fake attempt to understand "why" Columbine happened has always turned into an act of willful self-deception. At first their parents were blamed. But then we learned that both grew up in two-parent homes, and both openly loved their parents, even apologizing to them in video diaries. As Harris noted, quoting Shakespeare's The Tempest, "Good wombs hath borne bad sons." Then the Internet was blamed, Doom was blamed, violent movies, the NRA, lack of religion:everything was blamed except the most obvious cause of the attack: Columbine High School.
And what a horrible place it was - and is. After the massacre, numerous parent, students, and ex-students went public about the school's "toxic" culture of brutality. Students were routinely beaten, assaulted and humiliated right in front of the teachers and administration, whose jock-principal not only tolerated it but loved the bullies. As one jock from the Columbine High football team bragged after the massacre, "Sure we teased them:If you want to get rid of someone, usually you tease 'em. So the whole school would call them homos."" - Mark Ames, Exile.ru
http://www.exile.ru/2006-April-21/columbines_most_wanted.html
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In short form; treat people like ****, and they act like ****.
You'd think it's a lesson humanity would have learned by now, yet we're probably all guilty of it in some way.