I don't quite understand why people won't name the shooter in incidents like this. My interest is in...
I don't quite understand why people won't name the shooter in incidents like this. My interest is in properly documenting the historical record and understanding the incident.
People say naming him "gives him what he wants" ... but so what? That sounds like a game for children. "I will never do something you want me to do." "I want you to eat that bowl of ice cream."
Yes, sometimes people can glorify killers. But simply naming them does not do that, it simply tells us who did what, which is an important historical fact.
Yes, it might give the killer what he wants, but I do not care what he wants. What he wants has no impact on what I will do. I will do what I think is best, regardless of what he wants. Just caring about what he wants, is what he wants, after all ...
People say naming him "gives him what he wants" ... but so what? That sounds like a game for children. "I will never do something you want me to do." "I want you to eat that bowl of ice cream."
Yes, sometimes people can glorify killers. But simply naming them does not do that, it simply tells us who did what, which is an important historical fact.
Yes, it might give the killer what he wants, but I do not care what he wants. What he wants has no impact on what I will do. I will do what I think is best, regardless of what he wants. Just caring about what he wants, is what he wants, after all ...
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
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