evil is defined by opinion, columbine in persective - blame the world.

[2strokebloke]

Who is good and who is bad is determined by one's own opinions. The "good guys" can kill all they want - and because they're good their murders don't matter. The bad guys deserve to die, they're not good that's why we're fighting them - right?
If a leader has a problem with another leader, he can set his "good guys" loose to go kill the opposing leaders "bad guys" and there's nothing wrong with it, after all the good guy leader has defined himself as being good - therefore what he's doing can't be bad.
In columbine two kids used the exact same illogic that world leaders use all the time, they defined themselves as the "good" worthy of dispensing with the "bad".
When they did it, everybody was shocked and alarmed, I mean a couple of people went and shot some other people, as though this had never happened in history before.
Then for some reason they pointed the fingers at movies and videogames - rather than the truth which is the reality we live in. They say that people get killed in movies, and they have video games where the point is to kill other people - ignoring that in reality we have people killing people, and leaders who order people to go to war in which the point is to kill other people.
Some people don't like reality, they would like to imagine that this failure of the system exists in fiction - in games, in movies - they didn't want to see that the failure in the system has to do with the system itself.
The perpetraters displayed full well that they were perfectly capable of thinking with the same logic as any leader who'll define him/herself as good enough to do away with who they define as "bad" - any leader who sees violence and murder as a solution - something that has been happening since the beggining of civilization and continues to this day.
Is a serial killer any more of a monster than any leader who believes violence is ever the solution? Can we sit around and ignore the truth and be happy enough to blame such behaviour on videogames and violent movies - when the real violence is all around us, around the whole world - and has always been, even before movies and such became easy scapegoats for those too uncomfortable with reality?
We fight for censorship of what's fake, but are willing to openly accept - or even worse, endorse and justify the violence of war.
We don't want people to get shot in videogames, we don't want to see gore and blood in movies, but we're perfectly happy to cheer on the "good" guys in their never ending fight against the "bad" guys.
The media can't show footage of dead soldiers returning home in caskets - as though just because the image doesn't buzz across the surface of our electronic boxes - it's still okay that it happens in reality. What a joke this is.
to the good guys - boo to the bad guys.

[TexasF355F1]

That was cool bloke. People really need reality checks.

[dirtydx]

cheers to living exactly the same as yesterday.

[Oz]

The judgement on the crime is relative to the perception of your justification for the crime. Eg. self-defense.

[PWRDbyUNCLEbens]

After reading this post I tried to formulate a statement to reply, but there is realy no point being made in the post. If you think about in depth there's so many things to consider if you look at the concept of good and evil open mindedly. (if that makes sense in the least) Good post,gets the mind wondering

[fredjacksonsan]

Well said, 2stroke.