Campus shootings, psychological theories?

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There's always a reason behind an action. No matter how unreasonable it may be to the general public, it's all completely worked out in the criminal's head. Hence they can commit the action. It's really dependent on the individual.

A possible reason. (I quoted this 3 times today... <_<)

Originally Posted by Naoki Urasawa

Considering a hypothetical situation where you would want to die a perfect death.

A perfect death would mean that you don't live on in reality under any definition of the word "existing". Just because one dies doesn't mean that one is erased from reality. People have memories. People leave physical memorial items such as graves. People withhold innate emotions that last a lifetime.

So, in order to achieve a perfect death, one must wipe. Completely wipe the world of everything that identifies the past, present, and future of that one's life. This involves mass murder. Killing everyone who knew you, everyone who knows you, everyone who will know you.

One may say that the above three apply to everyone, because everyone has to know everyone else under indirect circumstances. However, that is not necessarily true. The people who know the people who know the one in question may not know the one in question. Hence, the people who know the people who know the one do not have to be affected. Only the people who have direct and indirect contact with the one have to be killed.

In essence, a perfect death means the death of the one in question and everyone else that had involved themselves with him in one way or another. A very hard feat to pull off, yes, but not entirely impossible.

Why would people want to do this? There are quite some several people who have traumas in their past, people who want to "redo" whatever happened to the past. It's impossible to change the past, but it most certainly is possible to erase it. The way I mentioned it above. People would only go this far to enact the perfect death only under extreme circumstances where their desire to change the past outweighs the amount of lives needed to be sacrificed for it. They also have to be intelligent enough to commit such an act, strong enough to withstand the impact of committing such an act, and most of all, ready to commit suicide.

There are many people who have tried. No one has brought up an incident large enough to have it recorded. And the people who have successfully committed a perfect death wouldn't have it recorded for us to remember. So, I'm quite certain that there have been a few successful ones out there in the world. If we were to name any successful ones, they wouldn't be successful anymore.

To erase your existence means more than to just end your life. You must erase "you" out of everything in existence.

I've never been to college (don't want to go either), so I wouldn't really know.

I don't find events such as this amusing. It's basically a dead wolf howling its final cry. Humans who are too weak to confront bullying etc. run away from their problems. Campus shooting is an erratic form of running away.