WTF

[SelfAppointedGunslinger]

Great so he thinks he's Fatman: emperor of explosives too now?

This guy really knows how ruin everyone's day, next thing I bet they'll find that he's smeared anthrax all over his flat to infect anyone who gets past the booby traps or something. I wouldn't be surprised if he somehow managed that off the Internet too.

Anyway booby trapped flat or not this crazy 'man' has a lot to answer for. I'm guessing they'll be showing documentarys about him this time next week, which is probably what he wants...

I want to know what exactly motivated this guy more than anything.

Also I keep seeing more and more NRA comments around saying it's some kind of elaborate liberal conspiracy so that Obama has an excuse to ban guns. Seriously?

 

[Marcodian Elite]

I have to take up something here too - anyone know the motivation behind it? thats what I cant really understand - or find just yet.

 

[Aions]

So I just heard on the radio that the police are still trying to disarm every explosive in his apparentment. Just how many explosives did he freakin' rig?

Also, apparently, he got all the things he used off the Internet.

boobie traps his own apartment? Thats pretty bad ass IMO
Ever hear of the anarchist cook book? you can get anything off the internet

Oh, Americans, some dead people and everyone on f****** Earth talks about it. Well f*** you, I don't care. Dead people are dead anyway. It could have been me, someone I like or anyone else in this friggin' world.

All so this^
There alot ALOT of ****ed up people in this world. Get over it. Yeah it sucks that people are dead, one of them just a baby that really sucks. Big time. But seriously why dose this **** even surprise people any more? No one even cares that this still happens like, once week.

 

[Gikoku]

Oh, Americans, some dead people and everyone on f****** Earth talks about it. Well f*** you, I don't care. Dead people are dead anyway. It could have been me, someone I like or anyone else in this friggin' world.

There alot ALOT of f***** up people in this world. Get over it. Yeah it sucks that people are dead, one of them just a baby that really sucks. Big time. But seriously why dose this s*** even surprise people any more? No one even cares that this still happens like, once week.

Sure is easy to talk like that when it's nobody you know or care about. Both of you get over it, everyone doesn't handle death and senseless murder like it's an everyday thing that can be shrugged off and ignored, and they shouldn't. It's absolutely retarded that stuff like this continues to happen on a regular basis and in this day and age (you'd think a lot of people would have more sense by now, but they don't). They're free to react however they wish for however long they want, ****ing deal with it.

 

[TRA Rotid]

People were searched before the Batman premiere in Estonia.

 

[Purple Nurple]

Well f*** you, I don't care.

Wat.

Just because unpublicised stuff like this happens frequently in certain parts of the world doesn't mean the stuff that happens in our part of the world loses any significance. People dying is awful regardless and it's good to share some thought for anyone that dies in such a horrible way. If you've got a problem with bureaucrats that's fine but it doesn't mean you're not allowed to take some time to mourn the people that died in a tragic way.

 

[Angel]

I think maybe people react more to stuff that happens in a "civilised, democratic, Western society" than they do when it happens elsewhere because we're supposed to be more "civilised and democratic" than everyone else. So anything less than that is an outrage.

But if it happens in, say, Bosnia or an African nation or perhaps a load of people in some Middle Eastern country that never seems to be out of the news...well, it's more - what's the word? - acceptable? Well, you know what I mean - not saying it's acceptable as in it's ok to happen but rather we've come to expect that sort of thing on a regular basis thanks to what the media tells us about these places that aren't either in the EU or USA.

In the UK, people are murdered, raped, mugged, assaulted pretty much every day...but only the biggest and most "outrageous" crimes elicit a response of any note. The twin towers went down and the world went into shock - that same day, countless babies died of starvation and sickness; no one gave a toss. Because one is outrageous and unacceptable whereas the other is sadly part of the world those people live in.

Thing is, we can either be in floods of tears over everything that is wrong with the world every time something kicks off or be completely hardened to it all and stick two fingers up. I personally prefer to propose a third option: when something happens such as a shooting in a cinema in America, a bomb on a bus in Israel, the drowning of mentally ill children due to negligence in New Zealand - whatever it may be - people who feel affected enough by the events have every right to react emotionally as they need to. It will vary in strength of reaction from person to person, place to place. It is neither right nor wrong to reqact or fail to react - but to tell others how they ought to be is just pointless, whether that be berating them for not having feelings or berating them for feeling too much.

Princess Diana died? Didn't care. Twin Towers blew up? Didn't care. Dunblane shooting? Didn't care. Columbine shooting? Didn't care. Why? Because those things did not impact me one way or another, for one reason or another. But people who are affected in some way, even if it's just the magnitude of the tragedy or the ages of those involved or the long-term implications, can mourn as they wish. And I expect to be shown the same respect in return when I do come across something that saddens me enough to react.

 

[Tsuyu]

The further away and event is to us, but geographically and culturally, the less we care about it. There is a whole science to it and the media use it on a daily basis: if a girl gets raped in your country, or better yet, your town, you can bet that that will air on the news on the telly even if some warlord in Africa had his soldiers rape an entire village of natives.

That might just get to be in one of those scrolling pieces of text that go right under the huge knockers of the news lady, if it's lucky.

 

[TRA Rotid]

Well...
when the Breivik tragedy happened, it was certainly close to us and we didn't feel totally cold about it.

Now a year later, my friend has been a member of the young Estonian social democratic party for quite some time. When one year passed, they had a meeting in remembrance of what happened; and he said he actually cared more about the event than he did before, because Breivik murdered AUF (The Workers' Youth League) members, the young social democrats of Norway, an organisation they have close relations to.

 

[Tsuyu]

Precisely. It wasn't geographically far away, nor culturally.