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[...] Korean Movie Inspired V.T. Killer? — [GI Korea] …I was just watching the news and not only do I feel bad for the victims families but I also feel really bad for Choâ€™s family as well. The guilt they must feel for this must be tremendous. They just reported on Fox News that his family went into hiding and that Choâ€™s 81 year old grandpa in Korea wished he would have rather died earlier so he didnâ€™t have to live to see this. He also said that his parents treated their son like a king. His poor sister who is a Princeton graduate and working for the State Department is being stalked by the media as well. [...]

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By: Sine qua non

Sine qua non — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:44:18 +0000

Yeah, I was wrong to say what I did about a person being evil. It was a mistake for me to judge another.

But in talking about illness: if a person with AIDS knowingly goes around sleeping with as many people as possible with the self-professed intent to further transmit the fatal disease, that person's behavior is criminal.

This person had sociopathic behavior. Sociopathy is not illness, it is, in its essence, hate. Hate, in turn, is no more than willful thoughts to destoy (in this case, thoughts to destroy other people).

An example of mental illness is when the brain is missing sections or is otherwise malformed.

If there is such a thing as a "chemical imbalance" in the brain (the supposed cause of so many mental illnesses), I would love to one day see a person with a "chemically balanced" brain.

Emotions (love, hate, etc.) produce chemicals in the brain; an example being the joy we feel when we're in love (releases of endorphins). Emotions make us chemically imbalanced.

If that person didn't control his emotions to the extent that he decided that he must kill, that is an example of human behavior that we should try to prevent from ever happening again, rather than "understanding the mind" of the murder as the media wants to do (and force down our throats).

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By: GI Korea

GI Korea — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 06:59:30 +0000

Cho was definitely mentally ill, but that shouldn't be used to excuse his actions and make him out to be a victim as well. There are many mentally ill people in America that don't go around and shoot up colleges and kill dozens of people. Cho is not a victim, he is a sick murderer.

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 06:38:28 +0000

Sine qua non wrote:

"Blame lays in one place: the evil heart of that person."

Evil heart? A heart is a vital organ that circulates life-giving blood throughout the body. Based on the documented evidence of police reports and an attempt at involuntary hospitalization plus the NBC videos, it appears that Cho was mentally ill. Mental illness is an illness. That is why US courts may declare an accused unfit to stand trial or a jury may acquit by reason of insanity. Cho wasn't evil; he was mentally ill.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 06:04:54 +0000

Yes, sadly the media do tend to run a story like this into the ground for ratings sake. Like all the coverage of Anna Nicole Smith, a simple-minded girl from Texas whose only talent seemed to be using her "assets" to get ahead, getting fat, marrying a go-zillionaire, and then dying. I hope that my life will create a better story than that.

Getting back to this VA Tech story though, I found it interesting that the U.S.-hating Korean media put their collective feet squarely into their mouths by coming out with all those political cartoons right off the bat before they knew the identity of the killer. I will bet that the population of crows in Seoul just went down a bit from the feast that the media must be having now.

One last thing, what's up with this boy's voice? Was he trying to sound menacing with that low monotone voice he was using? Most Korean men I've met don't have that kind of voice. Using that tone of voice actually made him sound stupid rather than menacing to me.

Anyway, let's hope the story dies as quickly as he did. That's all for me…

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