NP? modernity, terrorism, truth and relevance?

[malignd at aol.com]

Perhaps.  If creeping senility is my problem, there's probably little I can do for it.  But what exactly are you saying?  This person planted a bomb meant to maim people -- and succeeded handsomely -- and you feel sorry for him?  What exactly are you trying to say?  Again, I suggest you go express your sorrow to the victims. A hypothetical, clearly, but would you have the balls?  I doubt it ... 

You are increasingly sounding like Clint Eastwood talking to a chair.  Just sayin'




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You are increasingly sounding like Clint Eastwood talking to a chair.  Just sayin'

On Thursday, April 25, 2013,   wrote:

You feel sorry for this piece of shit?  Maybe you should travel to Boston and express your feelings to those limbless victims he intentionally destroyed.  Fuck you.

Dz seems a tragic consequence of big brother/father cult influence.  I feel sorry for him.




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Dz seems a tragic consequence of big brother/father cult influence.  I feel sorry for him.

On Tuesday, April 23, 2013,   wrote:





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Sorry, mal, I must have over looked this last evening. 
 
It is so hard to see anything good or even human in the actions of the Tsarnaev brothers. Trying to understanding them seems alomost self-hating. Your "Who knew?"- more about my simplistic testosterone comment- seems really more to the point about Dzhokhar's persona. Of all the people who did know him and interact with him prior to the horrendus events, that I heard interviewed, not one of them could believe he could have been capable of such a monstrous lack of empathy. He seems truly Other than "We."
 
The system may put him to death, or no, we'll see, but that's all after the fact. What new barometers will be devised, and how will they be applied, for measuring the potential danger of people who otherwise seem so normal? I find the prospects troubling.


 
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<<I think many agree- physically, he's not hard to look at.>> 


He's a murderer but hey! he's cute!  And sociable!  Cut the kid some slack!


<<Men, in general, are more prone to aggression and violence, much of that due testosterone.>>


Who knew?


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Dzhokhar is especially troubling and difficult to understand. I think many agree- physically, he's not hard to look at. From what I've read and heard, he's bright and sociable. He seemed to have alot going for him. Maybe there is more about him that will come out. Until then, it's an enigma. 
 
Men, in general, are more prone to aggression and violence, much of that due testosterone. It's tough to say whether background checks would have been useful in this case, but they might have been, given the older brother's encounter with the FBI. Of course, that's part of the reason why extremists of any stripe are resisting them.
 
 
 
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It's much easier politically to connect the Boston Marathon bombers with al Qaeda-style terrorism, than to connect them to the mentally ill (i.e. without apparent ideology) gunmen from Columbine to Newton. But surely young men who amass huge arsenals of weapons, for whatever reason, must have some psychological similarities. 








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