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Cho's PlaysA classmate reveals another one, "Mr. Brownstone," half of which is just a recapitulation of the Guns N' Roses song. The rest of it is just retarded, mixed in with angry loserdom. It's worth reading just how obvious it was to people this cat was weird and a loaded gun. What happened yesterday: There's a a downside to nonjudgmentalism, of course. Our brains are wired to make snap decisions about people in all regards, but particularly as regards (naturally) sex and death. We know instantly if someone is a likely romantic prospect. We also know instantly if someone is a likely threat. The fact of the matter lunatics -- florid lunatics, "quiet loners," etc. -- aren't usually able to hide the fact that they're touched. But our country has a culture -- positive in many ways -- of making no judgments about people based on looks or the vibe they give off, or, rather, at least not sharing such forbidden judging-a-book-by-its-cover thoughts with others. Especially not someone in a position of authority. We've been conditioned since infancy with thousands of morality plays that just because someone seems weird doesn't mean they are weird. Or bad. Or dangerous. The trouble is that weirdness has a pretty high correlation with badness and dangerousness. If someone has a dysfunction that prevents the normal sort of interaction and empathy with one's fellow human beings, well, that's not likely to be a person that's otherwise well-adjusted. The very fact of his socio-psychological defect probably isolates him, and makes him angry and resentful in his isolation. That weird kid you knew in third grade who everyone thought was psycho? Well, there's a pretty fair chance he was a psycho. This is all an off the cuff bit of bullshit by someone trying to suggest something, anything constructive about these situations. I have no idea if it's a good idea, on balance, to start reporting the chronically strange to the authorities. I'm not sure what the cops could do, precisely, if they do in fact determine someone is deeply weird -- which is itself not an accepted diagnosis in the DSM IV. And cops can't "keep an eye" on certified weirdos forever. But maybe it is about time people stopped being so damn nice and nonjudgmental and acted a little bit nosier and a little bit more the tattletale. Previously we've seen assassins and mass-murderers described so, so many times as "quiet" but "no one I'd ever imagine was capable of doing something like this." It's been speculated that that last bit was bullshit all along -- that people did suspect they were capable of doing something precisely like that -- and, perhaps because that cliche has been so well parodied, people are now much more willing to admit, "Yeah, I figured he was nuts, and maybe a pedophile, and maybe likely to shoot up the joint one day." Perhaps the new cliche -- "he was quiet and exactly the sort of person I'd figure would commit this heinous act" -- is as bullshit as the old cliche. But maybe it's not, and maybe people are just as good at playing Spot the Lunatic as they all secretly believe themselves to be, but are dissuaded from mentioning because of the demands of Niceness and Not Pickin' On The Strange Person. And maybe it's about time people started calling the police on such folks, if only the police, accompanied by a psychiatrist, could have a voluntary chat with the weirdo. Over at Goldstein's, this advice from "experts:" Heed hints from strange people who give you the creeping willies. They're trying to tell you something. "In our society, we've accepted a lot of very bizarre and bad behavior. That violent (tendency) doesn't seem to catch people's attention as much as it should, where people go, 'Whoah what is he saying?' Kind of like, if you're in an airport and you say, 'I have a bomb in my suitcase,' that will get you nailed right to the floor, right then. But, if you're someplace else and you say that, a lot of times, people just shrug their shoulders and say, 'Oh, yeah, he's talking about guns, he's talking about this, he's talking about that.' Parents ignore it. Their friends just say, 'Oh, well, he's just being weird.' Even teachers sometimes will say, 'He should just talk to a counselor.'
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