Some high schooler in Washington went postal

What's with the mord code?

70 what?

70 people a day kill themselves in Japan. Many of them in some weird forest.

Did you watch that documentary?

https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/suic...rest-in-japan/

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One thing that stops people from going postal is morals.

One thing that causes people to go postal is being treated like absolute ****. Most people don't go through a day to day harassment to that level. Plus a lot of these people have a complete lack of affection. The amount of shooters that are also virgins shows a clear connection. So where acting antisocial to sound edgy or holding humans for acting like humans against them is one thing, to be truly pushed to that point takes a lot more. Possibly a bit of mental instability there too.

I think that's a very valid point. Without some sort of proper emotional connection it's probably easy to see everyone else as unreal, sprites in a video game, representative of this or that, other than being real, living, breathing people who have other people who love and/or depend on them, and that it's not ok to take their lives just to make your ****ty self feel better before you end it all.

I have to blame the parents a lot to. Some of these parents never really guide these kids into being social so they don't know how to make friends or make connections. Like that one college kid who had never even been kissed. Now that dude was rich and handsome. I know too many ugly broke dudes getting some for that guy to be a virgin. He had to have been really socially awkward or something. Maybe if he would have actually talked to people about it or something, things would be different. Though, it's hard to be sympathetic towards somebody who takes out his sexual frustration on others in that way. Then there are people who just get treated like absolute **** as well. So their only human interaction is always negative. That reaction is a lot more understandable to me. Mix that with the irrationality and the emotional instability of being a teenager and it explains a lot.

^ That is pretty repulsive, but it makes a sadly accurate point!
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Regarding the OP question, let's not forget that (despite the Japanese statistic) a very powerful instinct for self-preservation is hardwired into all of us. Luckily, not many people reach a point at which they are prepared to override that - and even fewer commit themselves in advance to doing it as publicly as happens in those Colombine-style outrages.

If a Japanese guy goes into the woods with a plan to kill himself, he can always change his mind at the last minute, sneak back home and nobody need know. That change of heart is more humiliating if you are prowling the corridors of a school, armed to the teeth, with scores of witnesses.

- and where has the expression "going postal" come from? Never heard that before.

Life just ain't that bad.