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I think anger is natural, even hatred to a certain extent. But when you decide to start killing to assuage your feelings, then you have crossed a line to something that is not rational. Much like people who kill their spouses because they were unfaithful. Or people who go into their workplace with a gun due to real or perceived injustice. Maybe it isn't madness, but it's not rational.
Of course, this man may have any number of motivations. Power, attention, validation. Obviously he isn't picking up a gun to shoot people himself. But I think it's pretty safe to assume that his perspective has narrowed sufficiently so as to make him unstable, at the least.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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