A Twisted Psychology
What Makes High School Kids Kill?
By: Thomas Kolodziejski Jr. Copyright (c
)1999
What makes a young, law-abiding, intelligent, generally good high school student bring a gun to school, wield it and shoot his fellow classmates? Psychologists suggest that the subject, in this matter, has been manipulated by a society full of violent, brainwashing video games, �Satan worshipping� rock music, intriguing movies that depict violence, sex and utter mayhem through a fascinating perspective. They argue that the subject is jaded, hostile, malevolent, vulgar, and incapable of controlling their own actions because of music, movies, and video games. They claim the subject is, what they describe as, Anti-Social. They refer to a person�s problems as being anti-social. (I think it�s absurd to relate violent, disruptive, or pseudo �normal� behavior to a person�s difficulty or inability to make friends or, merely, just having a personal preference to keep to yourself and not be bothered.) They blame their rage on being anti-social calling their actions, �Anti-social behavior.�
Do the video games, movies and music play a contributing role in the corruption of a person�s morality or the decisions they make? I think it�s ridiculous to resort to blaming entertainment as a primary factor in a murder case. Every humyn being is desensitized. Children were brought up thinking the slaughtering of animals was a normal practice and engaging in consumption of the animal to be an everyday normality as well. To what do we place the blame on? It�s relevant to the same situation. Do we blame a person�s actions on being desensitized and brainwashed when they were being raised, or do we blame paramount for the movies they release, or Play Station for their crude video entertainment games they release? Do we blame a boy�s actions on being brainwashed when they were youths, being rewarded for the senseless execution of an insect, or do we blame Marilyn Manson for expressing �lofty� ideas of suppressive Christian theology? I think it�s pretty safe to say every humyn being has the ability if not the potential to at least think about killing people. It�s been branded in our blood. It�s something you can�t avoid� there is animal instincts in humyn beings, and we cannot defeat them. So clearly, blaming a couple categories of gore and violence isn�t what�s primarily making someone �shoot up� high schools.
But what do we blame? Who do we blame? Blaming the youth isn�t entirely an accurate declaration. Of course the child is held responsible for his/her own actions but what really makes that person want to kill and more importantly what drives that person to actually kill someone? This is possible and probable, it may not be relative in all cases, but it�s a different outlook, opposed to blaming video games and television. A student attends school, he/she isn�t the most interacting type of person, and quite possibly they�re shy and awkward as well. They already begin the oppression process by not interacting/communicating IF their ambitions are intended TO communicate and interact. Sometimes a person is quiet because they aren�t compatible with the people in their environment. For example, a student might think the other kids have lower-intellect levels. The initialization begins when that person forfeits. A natural inferiority complex is developed in those people who don�t interact, keeping in mind if they truly want to, but are simply incapable of doing so. This inferiority complex expands when confronted by others, for example if someone asks the student �Why don�t you talk?� If the student doesn�t reply or doesn�t give a good response, it�s basically declared that the student is inferior� most likely their peers would think he/she is intimidated by a person, causing the reaction of inferiority. This inferiority gradually turns into fear and disgust. Those who feel inferior often detest what they THINK is superior to them. Sometimes it will be a mere fabrication the person conjures in his/her own mind, thinking that either people are against him/her or think they�re superior.
(To be accepted is almost a definite aspect, whether it is a group of �jocks�, �nerds�, �punks� etc. People want to be in a comfortable environment with people they can get along with)
The second stage is conflict. If the student undergoes repeated endurance of harassment inflicted by their peers, they will feel as if they�re neglected, and not accepted. If this is the case and the student has already executed �stage 1�. This, on top of that, may be overwhelming to a youth causing him/her to contemplate revenge.
So who�s to blame? I would think it�s inevitable to blame the authentic problem, the oppressors. The students who feel it necessary to torture a fellow humyn being to the point where they bear a burning hatred against them� if you kick a dog while it�s in a kennel over and over, when you open that door, the dog will bite you. You load cargo with the same rope over and over, and if you apply so much pressure and wear on it, the rope will eventually break. Yes we can easily hold the rope responsible for dropping the cargo in the water, but whose fault was it that the rope became into such a fragile condition?
Is this justification for a student to go on a �rampage� and kill? Well, you decide. The student knows his/her confinements; the walls, the building, and his/her new cage in which he/she will be tortured in. That person knows their boundaries, the school building, and the battleground. It becomes in this person�s head a duty to equalize. If there is a group of kids who have power among themselves to where they can oppress that person, what, in this victims� head, can he/she think of doing by themselves that can equalize? The gun, later become the person�s equalizer, an equalizer not a gun. Tormented by a society of cold-hearted people watching a fellow person drown in misery by their own infliction, I often wonder who did more of a crime. The oppressed, victimized kid who only wanted to LIVE their life with some shred of dignity or happiness that used a tool to equalize the situation and killed a handful of heartless people that made him/her insane? Or the happy-go-lucky, care free, ignorant, stupid people who infringe so arrogantly on someone else�s LIFE and think nothing of it; causing that kid to kill? I don�t condone first degree murder, but I don�t think it�s fair to leave why the person killed in the first place unsaid.
Observations:- Military uses similar tactics. Going into a building where people are and killing them. When the oppressed kill, it�s a crime. When the oppressors kill, it�s heroic.
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