What is it with publications and news media that constantly need to push crazy people into the faces of the rest of us? What purpose does it serve by having that guy's picture who killed the six people in Tucson, and nearly destroyed the others' lives who he shot on the cover of Time or on the nightly news? Are we interested in knowing how everyone is doing...yes...we want them to heal both physically and mentally, but by making the killer a celebrity, we just feed into his craziness and the budding craziness of others lurking in their own shadows.
Somewhere, in the recesses of the mind of someone like the individual who created chaos in a matter of seconds in Tucson, a compartment opens or closes, and heinous actions are taken. Did his upbringing have anything to do with it, or was it something that was pre-set as the egg and that one sperm collided? Is there any way to determine that?
Does he, and do others like him, watch and read and listen as other tragedies occur throughout the world and feed on these events? Is there predestined programming in these individuals that need something to key off of before they click into their own app of craziness and destruction?
If you've ever gotten those chain-letter type of emails that include all those questions about getting to know you and have seen the one which asks, "What do you fear or are afraid of," I always look at that question and say, crazy people. Whenever these individuals are labeled "animals," I feel insulted for the animal kingdom. Not that I'm saying there are no crazies in the animal world, but usually, there is a survival thing going on when animals kill...not a rush.
I ask, can we stop being the publicity department for these individuals? Stop putting their faces on publications and on the nightly news. Bury them...figuratively and literally. Rehabilitation is not an option, and that is something coming from my (mostly) liberal stance.
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