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In reply to the discussion: School gunman Adam Lanza may have snapped over fears mother was going to send him to psychiatric... [View all]TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)People that do these horrific acts AREN'T rational therefore whatever their motive was if there was one at all isn't going to be anything normal thinking people consider rational either. I understand that everyone has a need to know why he did this - including me - that makes some kind of rational sense, but the fact that he did do it means he was NOT rational, therefore, there isn't going to be any rational explanation for why he did it. He did it because he was mentally disturbed, and we will never know the delusions that lived in his mind that resulted in his belief that it should be done. It can't be made sense of because of the very fact that it is a senseless act and committed by someone who obviously was mentally deluded into believing that it was a rational thing to do. And the very fact that it is an irrational thing to do committed by someone unable to determine the difference between the rational and irrational there isn't going to be any rational motive if there was even any motive at all.
We've been accustomed to discovering that when someone commits such an act there are always many people that knew the person that knew they were violently mentally disturbed. That isn't the case with this guy since whatever his mental problems were he kept them locked inside his own head hidden from everyone. He was uncommunicative to the point of occasional catatonic states in order to avoid dealings with other people. He was desperately shy, fearful, and unsociable with everyone including those people he knew well and trusted - like his own family members. No one but no one had the slightest clue he harbored these violent demons since al his life he went overboard in not allowing anyone into his head with his very long history of absolute shut down from others - ALL others. We'll never know what demons were in his head and how long they were there because right up until he committed this atrocious crime he had always been able to keep them locked inside his head with know one having any inkling they existed.