Dallas

As a prominent satiric comedian said here in germany once: "we are all aboard the express train into the abyss...permanently changing the drivers but not the direction!"...strange enough he also said some years ago: "look at the USA...this is where we (germany/europe) are going"...and he said that WITHOUT the slightest touch of anti-americanism or sarcasm while usually being a HARSH anti-US-guy...but this in here is dangerous ground (in terms of being shut down) to discuss such matters...

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A sociopath will co-opt the legitimate fears or angers of regular people and warp them into a rationale for their atrocities. Their narcissistic delusions drive them to feel important, as if what they do will be seen as justified or even heroic when in truth, they speak for no one but themselves. The shooter, whose name I won’t give further acknowledgement to, didn’t commit abdominal acts in response to other recent events, he used those events as an excuse to commit abdominal acts which he was itching to commit anyway.


This isn’t what the world has come to, it’s what it’s always been. We’ve always had sociopaths among us, but they are not us. Anyone can commit criminal acts given the right circumstances, but not anyone can become a sociopath, they are wired differently than the rest of us.


It isn’t a police vs citizen, black vs white, order vs chaos thing. This can be seen in the near universal desire of people to work together to find solutions to complex issues and the near universal sorrow over tragic events. We disagree about what to do to make things better, but we generally all do want things to be better. As the world evolves, things do get better, then things change or grow in some new way and maybe get bad during these growing pains, and then begin to get better again. Sociopaths jump into our issues to feel important, but we shouldn’t believe for a moment that they in any way reflect the nature of our society. A sociopath isn’t a police officer or citizen, a black man or white man, a law abider or a criminal, those things are just their outer covering.

Very well said BB.