There is nothing except your own fantasies upon which to base your assertions that the bullying victim - who tried to RUN AWAY to avoid a confrontation - is a coldhearted killer thrilled by his actions.
That is both totally out of context, and a complete mis-characterization of what I said.
First, re the context. My comment was a response to the pure speculation about the killer's future psychological condition which you asserted as though it were an established fact:
I feel far worse for the survivor, who skipped school and avoided riding the bus to avoid this 'kid's' bullying, and will be psychologically scarred for life by the act of defending himself from harm.
(Actually two bits of pure speculation there; first, the clear implication that the killer was still "defending himself" at the time of the 12th knife stab, and then the obvious pure speculation regarding the killer's lifelong psychological condition...in fact there appears to be a
third bit of pure speculation implied in that quote; that the killer's skipping school and avoiding the bus was justified by the actions of the kid he killed, rather than a gross over-reaction. This is also pure speculation, since I
again point out, we have seen no evidence on the extent of the the alleged bullying.)
It was in response to your pure speculation presented as fact about the killer's future mental state that I posited this hypothetical:
his assumed "psychological scarring" (again, no proof of this either; for all we know the kid could be proud of himself and happy about what he did)
Obviously, I was not
asserting as a fact (as you had done)
anything about his mental state;but merely tossing out an alternative possibility for which there we have every bit as much evidence, (ie none) as there was for your assertion.
BTW, it seems to me that the killer could be "proud and happy" about what he had done
without being a (as you put it in your mischaracterization of what I said) "coldhearted killer thrilled by his actions"
All that would be required for the killer to be "proud and happy" over what he did, would be for him to feel (as you apparently do ) that he was fully justified in killing the other kid, as a matter of self defense. He might also feel that he had struck a blow, (well, twelve blows) for the rights of the bullied everywhere.
It seems to me that, in order to be "psychologically scarred for life" (the pure speculation that you have presented as fact,) the killer would have to feel some sort of doubt about whether or not the extent of the violence he meted out was justified. He would be tormented about whether what he did was really necessary in order to defend himself. He would be scarred by questions about whether is response was truly commensurate with the threat he faced.
You are apparently not burdened by any of these doubts or questions; what proof do you have that the killer is?
(Oh, and if you're going to try to answer that question, I'd really appreciate it if you would please confine your answer to
actual proof you have about
this specific case, and not try to claim that your experience with "similar" situations somehow automatically validates your conclusions about this and makes them facts. Because of the paucity of specifics that we have about this case, any comparison between this and any other case you have encountered, and alleged "similarities" would be yet more pure speculation. )
