Reply #218: when were your sarcasm receptors removed?

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was it the result of some sort of accident, or was it due to an illness?

I'll go literal.

Men do things for one of four reasons:

1. food (or money)
2. women
3. beer
4. mental illness

Often, in my experience as a man, 2 and 4 are interrelated.

Okay, now I'll *really* go literal.

These murderous rampage killers are motivated by a complex mix of factors, in many ways unique to each of them. They are mentally disturbed or frequently severely mentally ill. They live in a society that is more likely to shun mentally disturbed individuals than help them. They often perceive themselves as having been unjustly victimized by others. They often are victims themselves of horrific abuse. Males are hormonally and culturally predisposed to act. Culturally, through TV and movies, we are shown relentless images of heroic men who act out using lethal weapons. When mentally disturbed individuals feel unable to control their own lives, they sometimes respond by trying to exercise control over others, for example, king george. They live in a country that is awash in lethal weapons. They know that by committing a horrific act, they'll get the "last laugh" on their perceived tormentors. The religious and secular corporations that own this country have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on advertising. They've created for all of us an artificial corporate landscape and an ersatz amoral set of values that methodically weaken the natural connections between humans and the earth and among humans. This creates isolation, confusion, emotional detachment and moral ambiguity.

Personally, I've known more sociopathic women than men. Why don't they act out with armed rampage killing sprees? I dunno, but I suspect that the profile of the spree killer may change over the next decade or two to include more women.

I don't "blame" women. I also don't blame men. I blame the individuals and those who contributed either through action or negligence to turning these people into monsters.