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Kid with asian-sounding last name... check. Creative writing assignment with violence... check. Looming paranoia... double check.
I'm not saying he shouldn't have been taken from class and evaluated... obviously that's the first course of action. My issue, though, is the knee-jerk cries of "put him in jail!" He doesn't need jail, he needs a psychiatric evaluation and a kick in the ass for being such a moron.
If jail was the punishment for all people with a severe lack of tact and common sense, the jails would be tenfold more full than they are now. Someone should slap him for being such a tactless moron as to write THAT just a week or two after the VA Tech thing. I mean come on... he needs to grow a brain.
Blaming "art" for violence in society is a cop-out. The people on this planet have suffered the violence of humanity for much, much longer than violent video games, films, and anything else you could point your fingers at, have existed. People who have been coddled and sheltered their whole life still do things that leave us scratching our heads in the aftermath.
What's the most amazing to me is that so many people readily accept most all personal traits/feelings/compulsions as being innate, but violence must have an outside causality. We don't say someone is depressed because they were once perfectly fine and started listening to some shitty emo music and it MADE them that way.... and no one has ever killed themselves because they were otherwise perfectly healthy and thought it looked cool in a movie they watched.
...so why, of all the choices a person can make in their daily lives... of all the personality traits a person can possess, all the feelings and driving forces that could possibly make up the inner-workings of a person's psyche... why is VIOLENCE the only one that we insist comes from the outside? Because no one wants to admit that violence can be as innate as any other emotion. They want to believe that something GAVE them violent impulses and thoughts. Well ya know what... that's just not the case.
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