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Am the furtherest from being an expert, so many caveats: TIL Wikipedia seems to agree with your assessment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School
by specialist 6y ago
Am the furtherest from being an expert, so many caveats:
TIL Wikipedia seems to agree with your assessment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre#Motive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre...
My understanding has long been the FBI profilers determined that spree shooters are begging for help, hoping someone will stop them. I'm pretty sure I got this from interviews in the movie Bowling for Columbine.
So it'd make sense to be alert for warning signs. Like most everything, all the well intentioned anti bullying measures were implemented terribly by noobs and proved counter productive.
But mostly, no one bothered to check to see if any of the remedies were helping.
Well, some measures are known failures. Like zero tolerance policies.
This is a recurring theme. DARE boosted drug use. Promoting abstinence boosted teenage pregnancy. Aggressive pain management led to opioid epidemic. Etc.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
- projct 6y ago> Aggressive pain management led to opioid epidemic This isn't what I got from staying informed on that epidemic, so I'm curious where you got this from. My impression is the Sacklers lied intensely about Oxycontin, and those lies are what did most of the harm.
- specialist 6y agoI currently share Dr. Atul Gawande's assessment. It jives with my personal (anecdotal) experience. I was in a pain and toxicity study, right during the major shift from under treating to over treating pain. And Gawande's criticism about the missing followup studies jives with my experience. https://www.vox.com/2017/9/8/16270370/atul-gawande-opioid-weeds https://www.vox.com/2017/9/8/16270370/atul-gawande-opioid-we... In my version of the story, Sacklers were opportunists who helped bury the evidence (a la Merchants of Doubt).