What particularly galls me is what I'll call "scapegoating by mental analysis." This modern-day tactic is in force for literally every kind of perversion, vice, bad-habit, crime, and of course now, murder. Nothing is anybody's fault anymore, - I mean, if you're a drunk - then you have a "disease." If you're a little crum-cruncher that won't pay attention in school - then you have ADD or ADHD. If you have a feverish lust for attention - then you have HPD (Histrionic Personality Disorder). Now, if you're a totally self-absorbed mass-murderer - well, apparently that's not you're fault either, because you were made fun of by other kids growing up. Interestingly, both the Columbine murderers & the VT murderer were taking psychotropic "anti-depressant" drugs.
The whole blame-shifting thing is getting a bit old - doncha think?
If I could pass along one thing to anybody that has reached adulthood, it would be this - "YOUR LIFE IS YOUR FAULT - NO EXCUSES!"
Yes there are "true victims," but when the definition of a "victim" becomes so wide that it diminishes the whole concept of what a true victim is, then our culture has truly gone nuts.
I will not be willfully "victimized" (through laziness) by the talking-hairdos that try to pass themselves off as journalists.
That's my two cents worth.
-BT
