Shouldn't things be even more ****ed up?

OccultHawk · 09-14-2017, 06:58 PM

Isn't it ****ing crazy how many people go through so much bull**** but it's only like one in several millions whoever really flips and goes postal. It seems like with the way people treat each other in this world it would be around 10% of us who would get pushed pass the tipping point and go Orlando or Newtown or Charleston or Virginia Tech or Columbine or like I said old fashioned postal. Why does it happen so often? ****, I think it's amazing entire days go by where NO ONE decides to check out and bring some extra folks along.

Zhanteimi · 09-14-2017, 07:00 PM

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OccultHawk · 09-14-2017, 07:14 PM

You lost me there

**Frownland** · 09-14-2017, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

You lost me there

Fire bad

Trollheart · 09-14-2017, 07:31 PM

It's all thanks to that little chip the government put in your head .... oops!

Lisnaholic · 09-15-2017, 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

^ 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.

**Frownland** · 09-15-2017, 07:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

^ That is pretty repulsive, but it makes a sadly accurate point!

Lol I posted that because it's a part of the genre where Bradbury-brand technophobes put across really basic social commentary in really cringy ways and present them as deeper than anything Plato could surmise.

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

There was a trend of postal workers shooting up their workplaces that led to that term

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The expression derives from a series of incidents from 1986 onward in which United States Postal Service (USPS) workers shot and killed managers, fellow workers, and members of the police or general public in acts of mass murder. Between 1970 and 1997, more than 40 people were killed by current or former employees in at least 20 incidents of workplace rage.

Lisnaholic · 09-15-2017, 08:32 AM

^ Thanks as always for the explanation, Frownland.

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Lol I posted that because it's a part of the genre where Bradbury-brand technophobes put across really basic social commentary in really cringy ways and present them as deeper than anything Plato could surmise.

^ That one's even better - a really good satirical cartoon. I love the detail of the cheese in his briefcase

Regarding the point made by Goofle and MicShazam: I agree, for most of us, life is sufficiently rich that we would be absolute fools to throw it away. That's why the old coroners' verdicts on suicide deaths used to include the phrase, "... while the balance of his mind was disturbed."

Zhanteimi · 09-14-2017, 07:17 PM

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GuD · 09-14-2017, 07:50 PM

Consequences, probably. Incarceration or fear of death are pretty great inhibitors of violence.

09-14-2017, 06:58 PM	#1 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	Shouldn't things be even more ed up? Isn't it **ing crazy how many people go through so much bull but it's only like one in several millions whoever really flips and goes postal. It seems like with the way people treat each other in this world it would be around 10% of us who would get pushed pass the tipping point and go Orlando or Newtown or Charleston or Virginia Tech or Columbine or like I said old fashioned postal. Why does it happen so often? **, I think it's amazing entire days go by where NO ONE decides to check out and bring some extra folks along. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

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OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	You lost me there __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

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09-14-2017, 07:50 PM	#10 (permalink)
GuD Dude... What? Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 1,322	Consequences, probably. Incarceration or fear of death are pretty great inhibitors of violence. __________________ I spit bullets in my feet Every time I speak So I write instead And still people want me dead ~msc