As someone who struggles with chronic pain, my heart goes out to this man. While I do not condone murder, I empathize with him. He clearly reached his breaking point. Pain can overwhelm everything—no matter the privileges one might have, even being born with a silver spoon in his mouth. And our healthcare (care?) system is not particular…
As someone who struggles with chronic pain, my heart goes out to this man. While I do not condone murder, I empathize with him. He clearly reached his breaking point. Pain can overwhelm everything—no matter the privileges one might have, even being born with a silver spoon in his mouth. And our healthcare (care?) system is not particularly sympathetic to cases like these. And maybe you are correct about eager followers.
Yes, I think this was the case of a person dealing with chronic pain whose worldview was one of increasing rage due to dealing with chronic unrelenting pain. This makes sense to me.
I also think this is very bad, for the exact reasons that David outlined.
This man is a handsome intelligent GenZ man with an otherwise typical GenZ worldview is going to become an instant folk hero to many people. He fits with the current angry populist zeitgeist that essentially is frustrated with everything under the sun.
People are going to relate to him and he is going to get the most rare commodity in modern society...positive attention.
It's so hard to get attention these days, to cut through the noise. Much less positive attention. Young people looking for validation and love who are depressed and suffering now how a new murderous outlet to get that...targeted assassinations. This isn't good. People should realize that.
What is valid is valid, and empathy and understanding should be given when appropriate, but what we can't and should not do as a society is to condone a murderer. At the same time you can recognize what chronic pain can do to someone and that our healthcare system is messed up. Although it's way more messed up than just the insurance industry and killing people won't solve anything.
As someone who struggles with chronic pain, my heart goes out to this man. While I do not condone murder, I empathize with him. He clearly reached his breaking point. Pain can overwhelm everything—no matter the privileges one might have, even being born with a silver spoon in his mouth. And our healthcare (care?) system is not particularly sympathetic to cases like these. And maybe you are correct about eager followers.
Yes, I think this was the case of a person dealing with chronic pain whose worldview was one of increasing rage due to dealing with chronic unrelenting pain. This makes sense to me.
I also think this is very bad, for the exact reasons that David outlined.
This man is a handsome intelligent GenZ man with an otherwise typical GenZ worldview is going to become an instant folk hero to many people. He fits with the current angry populist zeitgeist that essentially is frustrated with everything under the sun.
People are going to relate to him and he is going to get the most rare commodity in modern society...positive attention.
It's so hard to get attention these days, to cut through the noise. Much less positive attention. Young people looking for validation and love who are depressed and suffering now how a new murderous outlet to get that...targeted assassinations. This isn't good. People should realize that.
What is valid is valid, and empathy and understanding should be given when appropriate, but what we can't and should not do as a society is to condone a murderer. At the same time you can recognize what chronic pain can do to someone and that our healthcare system is messed up. Although it's way more messed up than just the insurance industry and killing people won't solve anything.