Reply #21: You're 95 percent right, truedelphi. [View All]

[tomreedtoon]

But there is another alternative. When life is a poker game, and you have only a small hand, and you're about to lose everything you have and hold dear...you can always kick over the table.

For example, I don't know why people hate and fear Harris and Klebold, the Columbine killers. They took what seemed to me to be a rational step; they found their enemies and shot them. Just like the unemployed, the rejected, the screwed middle-agers, they knew there was no way to negotiate with their oppressors. Their only mistake was shooting themselves. If they'd lived they could have gone on to point out why those bastards deserved to die.

(It amuses me that the girl who "believes in God" who was killed...although I understand that's a lie put out by the churches...is seen as an innocent victim. The people who "believe in God" are among the biggest oppresors on the planet.)

Harris and Klebold realized what the flower child Oprah viewer whom you critiqued doesn't realize; there is evil in the world, and it is not only tolerated by most people, it's encouraged. And if you've got nothing, you've got nothing to lose.