let's keep it simple and call him "crazy."
Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, right-wing religious fanatics, and the Tea Party appear to be responsible for a nut-case in Oslo to plant bombs and go on a shooting spree. Now I understand that words like "crazy" and "nut-case" are likely to drive the community of licensed psych-type people up a wall, but they're perfectly adequate to describe this guy.
Listening to pundits proclaim all the possible triggers, influences, and past life history as being the "reason" this man was driven to commit unspeakable crimes is ludicrous. If this were the case, we would have events like this taking place multiple times per day, every day. If the mere reading of certain material was a trigger to antisocial behavior, then why in heaven's name would any parent allow their children to read Harry Potter? Take a trip to any comment section on the Huffington Post and witness some real verbal violence. How many of those people are running around blasting away anything except their big mouths?
I understand the need for humans to make sense of the senseless. It makes us feel better to have an explanation. Until the next big news item pushes this geek off the front pages, there will be articles ad nauseum about the possible reasons. Each new article will make the claim of having the only correct answer to the age old of question of "why."
Let's keep this simple. Anders Behring Breivik is batshit crazy. I don't care how he got that way because it's impossible to know because, you see, he's batshit crazy. It's impossible to understand batshit crazy so why bother. Lock him up for the rest of his life and let's move on.
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I wonder if he is really crazy or just a fanatic, or filled with hate - in other words, given over to evil in some way?
I have a feeling he is going to become the poster boy for radicals who agree with his philosophy and political views. Unlike Ted Kazinski, Anders has a very marketable 'look' about him.
The big news in this story is that domestic terrorists behave and look absolutely normal.
Exactly. His politics have nothing to do with his obvious paranoid schizophrenia.
We might as well be talking about how his blue eyes contributed to this crime.
His writings are classic schizophrenic writings. They only make sense to him.
People are ignorant about mental illness. They can't believe that people sometimes can't control their actions because of a brain anomily.
Terry Nelson,
Trying to understand the whole thing I've read some of his manifesto. He is indeed crazy. Some people are just nuts. Remember the nut who shot Reagan because he was trying to impress Jodie Foster? Do his political view matter? No, because he is crazy.
Sometimes people are just 'nuts', this dude seems to qualify.
Amen! Now let's move on.
Amen! Now let's move on.
Yep, anyone that would do something like this has taken whatever ideology they believe to an extreme. His personal point of view itself is not as relevent as the fact that this guy is wacko.
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