We can blame the media too.

Now that’s getting close to home.

When the media glorifies psychos by posting their name and picture everywhere and reporting about it non stop 24/7, it tends to make other psychos want that level of attention as well. They will be crawling out of the woodwork now.

Wow. This shows how quickly someone can become an instant celebrity now days just by making comments.
There is no language quoted in the article to make this case.
It's a case of he said. . . that he said. . .

Why is this news?

Originally posted by randomtangentsrme
Wow. This shows how quickly someone can become an instant celebrity now days just by making comments.
There is no language quoted in the article to make this case.
It's a case of he said. . . that he said. . .

Why is this news?

It is news simply because of the fact that it is, well, news. I think it is a bit silly of you to just assume that it is he said, and not even think it remotely factual. Only aquiring 2 flags is hardly celebrity status, and the point of the post is to demonstrate how an Adam Lanza could be residing anywhere, no matter how safe you think your community is. With strict guidelines put in place by ATS in regards to the Breaking Alternative News forum, feel free to take it up with the mods if you feelit isn't adequate enough for your taste. WTHR is the largest news source in Indiana, and I can assure you that before this boy's name was ran through the mud, evidence would have had to be there.

the more media hype this gets the more people who are mentally ill will see it as their claim to fame.

There is a reason why serial killers arent given a media spot light beyond the absolute essentials to reporting their acts. It has been proven to produce copy cats.

Maybe if we stop glorifying murderers this sort of stuff would be less common.

It's just media contagion hypothesis.

They are creating these problems with their nonsense 24/7 coverage.

~Tenth

Originally posted by zedVSzardoz
the more media hype this gets the more people who are mentally ill will see it as their claim to fame.

There is a reason why serial killers arent given a media spot light beyond the absolute essentials to reporting their acts. It has been proven to produce copy cats.

edit on 19-12-2012 by zedVSzardoz because: (no reason given)

Thanks for weighing in, I am afraid that what you said is true. Now that the bar is set, psycopaths will be viewing this as the standard to meet when carrying out their terrible deeds. Whats next, a nursery, or a head start school for toddlers? Truly scary!

Sadly, it is a societal issue, and it will take a long long time to get it right. 5000 years of recorded history, but we are only still evolving.

1. A civilised society begins with the family unit, but sadly, while parents have the natural biological means to give birth to children, TEACHING the child is a totally different issue, and does not come NATURALLY.

Some parents spoil their kids, while others bash their kids either physically or mentally, in the belief that they way is right to bring up upright and sane adults.

Many had succeeded, which accounts for our evolution from the caves, with illuminaries of our civilisation. But greed, crime, murder, drugs, etc societal ills still pervades.

Parents will be first to accept responsibility for their kids, and how they turn out in life.


2. Next in line will be our relatives and friends. They are our social peers, and we humans are very much influenced by those around us. If we stay with positive people, we mature and progress quickly as well as positively. Stay with negative people, and we will be suckered into negativity, regress and may eventually go insane one day.


3. Next to accept responsibility will be religious leaders. Religion is meant as a moral and ethical path for mankind's progress and evolution. Interpretate it right and we will be elevated. Do it wrong, and we regress.

Much lays with religious leaders, on what they do, did not do, had done and had not done. It is their teachings that largely reflects how a society progresses or regresses. No child was born an atheist or will anyone find an atheist in a foxhole during a aerial bomb attack / ( when faced with pressures and stresses of life)


4. Society itself - through the elected leaders, have to take and shoulder most of that responsibility. As a civilised society that had enough of living in jungles and with jungles laws, whom had decided to SHARE and live as a unit protected to progress and evolve TOGETHER, it creates and legislate laws that are ensured we all can live and co-exist with one another, leaving none behind.

Alone, an individual will not have knowledge of ALL aspects civilisation traits - society, economics, politics. But when we SHARE our knowledge and pool our resources, we will then be able to progress and evolve, for each brings to the table something that they know and when combined, forms the whole. No man is an island, nor is a man born out of a rock.

Thus, there is need for more meaningful conversations to be shared, discussed and debated to find solutions for mankind to progress and evolve.

Right now, at this moment, we know what are the problems of the world, the nation and the community faces, so long as we seek for the truth and do not live in denial. Solutions are needed.

One of the issue right now posed on this thread is why are some kids seemingly hell bent on following the example of the ChildSlayer.

Rebelliousness and angst of youth perhaps? Ignored by parents and adults? Inflated egos? It is only common, for ALL of us were teens once.

Perhaps the solution lays in creating MORE avenues where EACH child can show his/her worth to their peers, such as hobbies, sports, academic achievements, talent searches, etc, and each activity given EQUAL weightage of applause and recognition?

For example - a baseball team is equal to the football team, a sciene olympiard is equal to a literature olympiard, a singer is equal to a a scout, and ALL of them are treated equal, as only contributors to the whole? In this manner, none will be left behind, or feel left out or unwanted by his/her peers, parents and society. .