Am I a bad person.

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I was watching a true crime documentary earlier and I felt more sorry for the perpetrator than the victims. They showed it like the people he shot were constantly making fun of him and antagonizing him, and he was a war veteran so he may have had PTSD as well and they were throwing firecrackers at him a few times., but they kept pushing and pushing till he snapped and killed them and then he killed himself too once the police came.

I just feel bad for that poor man, just wanting a peaceful place to be and his nasty neighbors driving him to that. But I was glad to learn he at least took those miserable people out with him. But like it makes me wonder is that bad thinking to have the idea at in that case maybe the victims asked for what was coming to them I mean they did egg him on to shoot them and so he did. Idk am I evil...

I won't directly answer your question, however I will say that I understand exactly how you feel, and you're entitled to your own thoughts and feelings.

Yeah things aren't always so black and white

From the very little I know about you as a person Sweetleaf I wouldn't say you're a bad person

It sounds like a terribly sad story all round. I think your reaction shows you have a strong empathy with victims of bullying. It doesn’t make you a bad person to feel that way and I understand why you felt that way.

It sounds like you sympathize with a sympathetic villain.

Being a sympathetic murderer doesn't make ones murderous actions justifiable.

I don't think finding someone's story sympathetic makes you a bad person, even if their actions can't be justified.

If you are, then I am too. I frequently feel empathy with people who have done terrible things. That doesn't mean I don't empathise with the victims, I just think it must take a lot of pain and suffering before people get to the point they hurt others. Unless they're psychopaths but not many people are.

I've got myself in trouble for voicing my opinions about these things in the past though, so I've learned not to. People just want to think of these humans as evil demons.

No, I don't think you're a bad person. I'm going off memory here, but I recall soon after The Sandy Hook Newtown CT shooting, saying that Adam Lanza " Wasn't one of us". Now of course, what Adam Lanza did was beyond horrible and if he had not killed himself, he absolutely deserved to face dire consequences for his actions.

The whole line of " He's not one of us" or some variation of that, kind of stops me cold. Meaning, at many times in my life I've been the outcast or the pariah. The one no one wants anything to do with. " The next school/workplace shooter" " Serial Killer" and other hurtful untrue BS. One or two people stick a label on you, then the others like sheep just believe it, without question. Hence, " You're not wanted" " no one wants to do deal with a weirdo like you" " You need to be locked away in a psyche ward" " You need to be cured".


After the event went down, the media basically made an assumption that all people with ASD are violent insane people with no conscience. Then the anti-vaxx conspiracy idiots started saying that caused the shooting. Basically, Adam Lanza was thrown away like a piece of trash and the media kept showing the same picture of him, to reenforce the fact " he's not one of us", no idea if they doctored the photo but it would not shock me if they did.

One of the reasons I stay quiet about the fact I am pretty sure/positive that I have ASD is because of this type thing, is that it would put even more of a target on my back, that I already seem to have.

So, there are 2 sides to every story of what might have led up to an event going down. I've not seen the true crime drama in question but now I want to. To conclude, at times the victims to an extent go what they deserved but... the person who was/is the perpetrator was wrong in carrying out the action. If that makes sense.

I don't think you're a bad person. There should be zero tolerance of bullying . Make it financially punitive to bully others.

Yeah, I suppose I still recognize it was wrong of him to kill them, but I can sympathize with why he got to that point. Probably just means I have empathy, I guess I just feel bad for sorta thinking those bullies deserve what they got.

I just found out the young man who had shot Orange Man was described as having no previous criminal record and being quiet, very intelligent, and was bullied a lot in school. Sounds all too familiar.

He was also a Republican.

And I am indeed a bad person because my sympathy for Orange Man and the MAGA lemmings is about minus 2345. I am worried for the non-Orange Man people in the USA.