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KWSN · 10-16-2003, 08:44 PM

OK... I'm not saying this thing wouldn't have not happened if people had listened to the lyrics in a song... I'm saying that perhaps SCENARIOS PUT FORTH in music may help people to notice a thing like that before it happens, but people generally take their music in a sort of a "I don't read into it, I like the way it sounds" way, generally.

About the "they were fucked up" thing, I have to disagree there. The fact of the matter is not that they were fucked up by nature (if that were the reason I would have shot up my school in fucking Kindergarten), it's that they didn't get any attention. They were pretty much the "him" in the song... picked on, beat up, etc, because they didn't accept the common social scale. Being "fucked up" as it were doesn't make you shoot up a school. There has to be a trigger.

And for the scapegoat thing, I don't think there's any song that could possibly make anyone do something drastic as that. No song, no video game, no anything. Even if it DID make them want to do something like that, it would be because they had no use for anyone else... didn't everyone just beat them up and hate them anyway? If they got attention, it wouldn't have happened.

I'm not saying that music is what people should live by in every case in the world, I'm just saying that maybe people should step back for a second after listening to a song and think about the message. That's all.

10-16-2003, 08:44 PM	#4 (permalink)
KWSN green	OK... I'm not saying this thing wouldn't have not happened if people had listened to the lyrics in a song... I'm saying that perhaps SCENARIOS PUT FORTH in music may help people to notice a thing like that before it happens, but people generally take their music in a sort of a "I don't read into it, I like the way it sounds" way, generally. About the "they were fucked up" thing, I have to disagree there. The fact of the matter is not that they were fucked up by nature (if that were the reason I would have shot up my school in fucking Kindergarten), it's that they didn't get any attention. They were pretty much the "him" in the song... picked on, beat up, etc, because they didn't accept the common social scale. Being "fucked up" as it were doesn't make you shoot up a school. There has to be a trigger. And for the scapegoat thing, I don't think there's any song that could possibly make anyone do something drastic as that. No song, no video game, no anything. Even if it DID make them want to do something like that, it would be because they had no use for anyone else... didn't everyone just beat them up and hate them anyway? If they got attention, it wouldn't have happened. I'm not saying that music is what people should live by in every case in the world, I'm just saying that maybe people should step back for a second after listening to a song and think about the message. That's all. __________________ Your arms are broken!