Events like this cause wounds that never heal.
]]>He didn’t fit in; he couldn’t find his place in society. You can’t help people who don’t want it and/or don’t understand they need it.
]]>And we can’t: we will never have such tools. The brain is too complex, and its processes even at the physical level too ill-understood, to make dispositive determinations of who will and who will not crack up and commit violence.
If I recall correctly, mental health professionals are legally required to breach therapist-patient confidentiality and notify authorities when a patient issues a credible and specific threat to do harm, but such a notification rarely happens, first because therapists are reluctant to risk confidentiality (and rightly so), and second, because it’s still at best a guess who is making serious threats and who is just letting off steam.
IMHO, these events will happen every few years, no matter what measures are taken to prevent them. I wish it were otherwise.
]]>That is very normal among Asians, the parents would feel that much responsibility for their child and his actions.
Frankly, Alice, this is looking more and more like a carefully planned operation: that he decided to commit suicide and wanted to take his perceived “enemies” with him. Most of the people he targeted wouldn’t know he hated them.
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