Acts of Terrorism megathread

[Duque de Bragança]

3 dead and 16 wounded including a critically injured gendarme commissioned officer who offered himself to replace a hostage.

Damn. 

The gendarme died from his wounds this morning.

[mongers]

3 dead and 16 wounded including a critically injured gendarme commissioned officer who offered himself to replace a hostage.

Damn. 

The gendarme died from his wounds this morning.

That's a tragedy. 

[DGuller]

He means normal things, not kgb torture experiments.

No, I just think he's normalizing insanity.

[Valmy]

The gendarme died from his wounds this morning.

Mort pour la France

[dps]

He means normal things, not kgb torture experiments.

No, I just think he's normalizing insanity.

You didn't attend high school in the US, did you?

[DGuller]

He means normal things, not kgb torture experiments.

No, I just think he's normalizing insanity.

You didn't attend high school in the US, did you?

I sure did.

[Eddie Teach]

DGuller was hall monitor.

Though I don't think high school is the real culprit, adolescents naturally feel alienated.

[DGuller]

To the extent that alienation is a problem, it's the fact that everyone involved is not quite grown up yet.  Those feeling alienated do not yet have the social skills to find a place they belong, and those helping alienation do not yet have sufficient empathy to reach out rather than exclude. 

Sure, you can lock people away from interaction with their peers, but that seems like a cure much worse than the disease.  At the end of the day, most of us survive the horrors of teen years and US high schools, even if we have to live through an unpleasant period or two.

[dps]

Though I don't think high school is the real culprit, adolescents naturally feel alienated.

You may be right about that, though the way high schools are set up and run certainly doesn't help.  And that might just be in the nature of schools;  there might not be much we can do about it.  I remember on of my sociology texts in college was talking about primary and secondary schools, and pointed out that you will never again be in an institution that has that much control over your life, unless you enter the military or go to prison.  Probably not really a problem in primary schools, where you're dealing with little kids, but maybe a different story in high schools, where you're dealing with teenagers.

[Jacob]

I doubt being homeschooled had anything to do with it.  If you want to make someone feel alienated, I can's think of anything you could do more likely to accomplish that than sending them to the typical US high school.

I thought this was in France? Why would he have gone to the typical US high school? Or was the killer American?

[garbon]

I doubt being homeschooled had anything to do with it.  If you want to make someone feel alienated, I can's think of anything you could do more likely to accomplish that than sending them to the typical US high school.

I thought this was in France? Why would he have gone to the typical US high school? Or was the killer American?

wtf?

[Malthus]

3 dead and 16 wounded including a critically injured gendarme commissioned officer who offered himself to replace a hostage.

Damn. 

The gendarme died from his wounds this morning.

He was, truly, a hero (a word that gets devalued these days, but if he wasn't one, then the word has no meaning).

A terrible loss.

[Jacob]

I doubt being homeschooled had anything to do with it.  If you want to make someone feel alienated, I can's think of anything you could do more likely to accomplish that than sending them to the typical US high school.

I thought this was in France? Why would he have gone to the typical US high school? Or was the killer American?

wtf?

Did I get different conversational strands mixed?

[Jacob]

He was, truly, a hero (a word that gets devalued these days, but if he wasn't one, then the word has no meaning).

A terrible loss.

Indeed.

[garbon]

I doubt being homeschooled had anything to do with it.  If you want to make someone feel alienated, I can's think of anything you could do more likely to accomplish that than sending them to the typical US high school.

I thought this was in France? Why would he have gone to the typical US high school? Or was the killer American?

wtf?

Did I get different conversational strands mixed?

Yes. That strand is about Austin...or rather stemmed from that.