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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-20-07 09:37 PM
Response to Reply #16
19. obviously the mental evaluation was wrong
can you say malpractice?

if we really have no better ability to remove people who are actively threatening and stalking girls than this, then it's a sad comment on the validity of medical science, it seems we actually don't have the technology to distinguish a dangerously insane person from the run of the mile goth guy scribbling some depressed screeds
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  -What if bullying was 1% responsible? dsc  Apr-20-07 08:54 PM   #0 
  - Look, bullying hurts...its true. But killers kill. And mentally ill people are a fact of life  MichiganVote   Apr-20-07 09:02 PM   #1 
  - can't we end both? N/T  ends_dont_justify   Apr-20-07 09:05 PM   #4 
     - And both are related - while those who bully or are bullied may not be  AZBlue   Apr-20-07 09:21 PM   #10 
     - No. Some people will bully. And some people will kill. But not all bullies and not all  MichiganVote   Apr-20-07 10:05 PM   #29 
  - Dupe  MichiganVote   Apr-20-07 09:03 PM   #2 
  - but at virginia tech wasn't the shooter also the bully/stalker?  pitohui   Apr-20-07 09:04 PM   #3 
  - Cho clearly had a galaxy of problems  dsc   Apr-20-07 09:07 PM   #5 
  - my read of it is that cho was himself a bully who wanted to bend others (girls) to his will EOM  pitohui   Apr-20-07 09:12 PM   #6 
  - In high school he was picked on quite a bit  dsc   Apr-20-07 09:15 PM   #7 
     - in high school! crap, wasn't he 24?  pitohui   Apr-20-07 09:18 PM   #8 
        - actually the love interest angle is wrong  dsc   Apr-20-07 09:20 PM   #9 
           - but if he had been detained for the stalking he wouldn't be available to shoot anyone  pitohui   Apr-20-07 09:28 PM   #15 
           - They had him mentally evaluated  dsc   Apr-20-07 09:33 PM   #16 
              - obviously the mental evaluation was wrong  pitohui   Apr-20-07 09:37 PM   #19 
                 - We try to error on the side of not committing people who shouldn't be committed  dsc   Apr-20-07 09:39 PM   # 
                 - I read that the stalking consisted of  flying_monkeys   Apr-20-07 10:03 PM   #28 
           - stalking two women is a warning sign.  salin   Apr-20-07 09:58 PM   #25 
              - I am not saying it isn't  dsc   Apr-20-07 10:02 PM   #27 
  - The articles say that he compared himself to Jesus Christ in his filmed rants  brentspeak   Apr-20-07 09:23 PM   #11 
     - I could see it making psychosis worse  dsc   Apr-20-07 09:24 PM   #14 
  - The bullied turn into bullies, just like the abused turn into abusers.  AZBlue   Apr-20-07 09:24 PM   #12 
  - but the abused mostly DON'T turn into abusers  pitohui   Apr-20-07 09:34 PM   #17 
     - Of course they don't  dsc   Apr-20-07 09:36 PM   #18 
     - well i would like to see abuse brought to an end  pitohui   Apr-20-07 09:39 PM   #21 
        - The university appeared to take this very seriously  dsc   Apr-20-07 09:44 PM   #23 
     - Of course not - that's not even a valid argument, sorry.  AZBlue   Apr-20-07 10:05 PM   #30 
  - Then wouldn't stopping bullying have stopped him?  jobycom   Apr-20-07 09:37 PM   #20 
     - yeah he should have been detained  pitohui   Apr-20-07 09:40 PM   #22 
     - I agree, zero tolerance of stalking, which to me is the ultimate form of bullying  jobycom   Apr-20-07 09:56 PM   #24 
     - abuse does cause mental illiness as the body excapes the real world -DSC's point of less  papau   Apr-20-07 09:59 PM   #26 
  - Bravo.  jobycom   Apr-20-07 09:24 PM   #13 
  - Those stories made me hurt.  flying_monkeys   Apr-20-07 10:15 PM   #31 
  - kick  dsc   Apr-21-07 06:51 AM   #32 
 

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