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Lil' Columbine?
Narr:
I guarantee that even if the kids did attack the teacher, they would have scared THEMSELVES into a state of shock after violence started. 8, 9 year old kids, man. When I was that age, seeing someone with a bloody nose was enough to make me feel ill, and I can't imagine I'm alone in those regards.
Now, I do believe they need to be held accountable to an extent (My religion believes children reach the age of responsibility at age 8), but these kids really had no idea what they were doing.
Chrasstor:
I'm still not convinced that 9 year olds could cut up a body. Average nine year old is 4'6" 70lbs. I'd have trouble cutting human bone with a steak knife. Christ sake, are you forgetting how weak you are before puberty? They obviously didn't think it all the way through, again, they're not even top notch 9 year olds ; how intricate do you suppose their plan was? I'd say, not very.
These kids are just stupid as hell, guys. I'd say I was even more diligent as a young boy than I am as a young man. Not because I knew more about punishment back then, but because, whether from my parents or otherwise, I had a conscious knowledge of wrong and right. I knew that it would be a major fuck up, and that I would be punished. Although I may not have known as much as I do today as far as academics go, I definitely fucking knew that it's a BIG mistake to kill someone. On top of that, why would I want to hurt anyone? Sure, I watched Dragon Ball, Mortal Kombat and Spawn... But I still never got into any real fights, nor did I want to hurt anyone.
It would be perplexing to figure out why average 9 year olds from decent middle-class families would do something like this. It's not as shocking to understand that a bunch of LD 9 year olds would think up a plan like this. Chances are they didn't have great parenting, either. Also, kids who have ADD severe enough to be in a separate class aren't much brighter than those with ADD.
Idiocy+Innocence+Mob Mentality=Let's kill someone, I suppose.
SeanBateman:
I mean if you are going to murder someone Waycross, Georgia is as good a place to do it as any, since I hear there is a cave that you can hide bodies in where they will never be found.
I think it is in like... Tiger Mountain?
Ozymandias:
--- Quote from: Chrasstor on 02 Apr 2008, 18:01 ---It would be perplexing to figure out why average 9 year olds from decent middle-class families would do something like this.
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--- Quote from: Chrasstor on 02 Apr 2008, 18:01 ---average 9 year olds from decent middle-class families
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--- Quote from: Chrasstor on 02 Apr 2008, 18:01 ---decent middle-class families
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a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: Anyways on 02 Apr 2008, 17:44 ---I'm just curious if you guys think the parents are responsible for any of this. My first reply was a joke, but me raising the parental issue was kind of serious. I mean, parents should start imprinting into their kids that killing will send you straight to showers where dropping the soap is a major fuckup as early as possible, definitely not wait until third grade or later - or is this just a case of the kids not giving a shit about what their parents say?
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I think trying to determine that is impossible. I still reckon this could just have been a very morbid little game, peculiar but harmless in the end. When I was about four my sister and I used to have elaborate executions for our teddy bears, running through whole mock trials before mercilessly dispatching them. I can imagine we might have done something similar with another kid as the victim. We would never have hurt them, but we damn well would have assembled all of the equipment to stage a good killing. I often think adults have an expectation that kids only want or should have pleasant and untroubled imaginations but that's not what I remember, death, destruction and general unpleasantness were standard things to be preoccupied with. Ghost stories and folk tales are usually very dark and that's fine, and anyone who's read a Roald Dahl novel will know children like things gruesome so I don't think them being exposed to stories that deal with murder and violence is a problem either.
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