Crime Discussion.

HOMEWORK:

to choose a crime (factual) and discuss the impacts and related issues of this crime.

CRIME CHOSEN:

Cho fits pattern of campus killers
By Kathryn Westcott
BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6567143.stm

I believe most people's initial reactions towards the Virginia Technological University's massacre would be blaming the killer, Cho Seung-hui, for his terrifying acts. But why didn't anybody questioned about why he has he done all that he did? I think this is equally important.

In his video, Cho says: "You have vandalised my heart, raped my soul and tortured my conscience. You thought it was one pathetic more life you were extinguishing. Thanks to you, I die like Jesus Christ to inspire generations of the weak and the defenceless people."
He also labelled fellow students "brats" and "snobs".

From this short paragraph, we can already see how hurt and broken the killer was. Instead of blaming and be grieving so much over what has happened, maybe the thing that everyone can do would be to find out why did he did all these.

It was mentioned in the article that Cho faced psychological problems, and experienced an ongoing history of rejection. Maybe it was just because of his classmates and schoolmates' little inconsiderate comments of him that amounts to everything? Or maybe it was just because he was studying in a foreign school and thus was like the "odd-one-out" in the class. Whatever it is, it has all summed up to his final massacre.

Like other killers, Cho left behind rage-filled testaments. (via his video)

I believe it is not easy for one to be living and studying in a foreign environment. As quoted from the article, "Teasing, bullying or other kinds of rejection were common elements in school shootings,". Had the classmates and friends of the various killers been a little more considerate and thoughtful, the tragedies might have never happened at all.

Hence, in order to prevent such killings from happening again, I believe everyone should play a part and start putting ourselves in other peoples' shoes before doing anything so as not to hurt the rest of the people.

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