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Originally posted by KWSN
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.
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I highly dissagree. There is definitely something else there. What it is exactly I don't know but just because someone is picked on doesn't give them the right or an excuse to go off and kill a bunch of people. Especially a bunch of innocent bi-standers who didn't even know them. I was picked on at school. I was beaten up daily, thrown in trash cans, had my glasses broken, had my pants try to be pulled down and ended up having them rip them, driven to the point of almost tears. On top of all that I live in an abusive home. I didn't go off and shoot anybody though. I got older, better looking, and cooler than all the people that used to make fun of me, most importantly I got over it. I'm sick of people making up excuses for weak minded and weak willed adolescents. A kid kills a dozen students and they feel sorry for him cause he was picked on, and try and blame music & video games & t.v. instead of pointing the finger and blaming themselves instead. It has to do with how they're raised. I will agree though that the possibility of music giving someone ideas isn't completely out of the park. But thats why I've always believed that it is ignorant of people when confronted about such issues with their music, say "IT'S JUST MUSIC!" because if people are taking it seriously and are influenced to do things by it thats when it becomes much more than
just music. Jeremy by Pearl Jam is another good song about that sort of topic.
Asta!!