Adam Lanza diagnosed Aspergers, what happens with bad care

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^ I'm assuming you're referring to every genocide ever, right?

It's not like trying to explain his behavior means we're condoning his actions. If we figure out the why and how, we can work on preventing it in the future.

"Every year 15 million children die of hunger"

"To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion"
http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/h ... /stats.htm

The Gross National Income of the World is $80.71 Trillion, current prices - 2011
Source: World Bank
www.google.com/publicdata

All Adam Lanza did was kill twenty children and six adult staff members at an elementary school, but he's "evil"

a. Bad People do Bad Things.
b. Adam Lanza did a Bad Thing.
: : Adam Lanza was a Bad Person.

I still beleave he had something else undiagnosed or something, like the personallity disorder his brother said he had. What he did and how did it just does not fit in well with aspergers in my mind, I read one of the detailed articals and as it went on I know I could no longer relate at all to his beheavior. He was a cold blooded killer, take away aspergers and I don't think that fact would change, maybe he would have had more friends and not hated so much however I don't beleave aspergers had any infulence on his choice to take those lives(thats the main issue at hand). Some people are just mentally messed up plain and simple.

Was it confirmed that he was on SSRI's?

I think that his mother did feel she was doing what was best for him school-wise. It turned out to be stressful for him most of the time, but were there any better options out there? I guess home schooling would have been much more comfortable for him but maybe she was afraid he would lose all social contact.

So when an autistic person murders somebody, they say it's because they're autistic.

'Kay, got that. So, when a neurotypical person murders somebody, I'll come back and say it was because they're neurotypical.

Gotta watch out for those neurotypicals. They commit more murders than anybody else. Obviously they are getting bad care for their tragic condition.

Those of you who were abused, mistreated, bullied as children: Why didn't you automatically go and shoot up a school? Let me guess: You decided not to. You believe it's wrong. You don't want to hurt people. At the very least, you don't want to go to prison. Well, that's why most neurotypicals don't go and shoot up schools, either. Being hurt does not mean you are automatically going to hurt others. Receiving inadequate treatment does not mean you are going to turn violent.

And personally, I think it's pretty darn offensive to imply that people who've been hurt or who've gotten inadequate treatment--people like us, in many cases--are helpless to decide not to murder a school full of innocent little kids. Because, you know, we aren't helpless. Being a victim doesn't define us. We have free will and we have compassion. Demonizing people who have been neglected and mistreated is just a way of victimizing them further.

I don't think anyone's saying that, Callista. Sometimes, when people reach their breaking point, they'll lash out. A lot of the time, it ends in suicide, without others in the crossfire. I don't believe a lot of the other mass shooters were depressed, though I could be wrong, but to deny that emotional tumult could ever possibly be a factor in causing a person to commit such inhumane acts seems rather incredulous.

I'm an autistic on an SSRI who plays violent videogames and I feel no complusion to shoot anyone. Thinking any of those factors could be a root cause of this tragedy is misguided.