The news said the guy was full of remorse. Why? It might
seem a strange question but he wasn’t crazy, he’d just decided to do it. So how
can a cognitive decision be so far from its real world consequences? In the
decision process he wanted to retaliate for being expelled, for the students
thinking he was a jerk, not liking him, probably like at home. Society was
happy for him to buy a gun; the guy in the shop was nice to him. And no one
really dies in shoot-em-ups and TV shows. They’re just acting and the blood’s
CGI. Social media’s full of anger and wild conspiracies, lies and truth all
mixed into a soup of confusion. He was a decent human being that didn’t deserve
all this shit. So he decided. It would be a duck shoot, bam, bam, bam like Call
of Duty or The Wire. Even if he got shot he’d just go back to his last saved
game or use the remote. Sure in the moment he enjoyed it, all these scenarios
coming together to free him from his anger. But people died, the blood was
real, the cries and tears were all real. Reality impinged hard on this maze of
constructs killing them like bullets. So he felt remorse. Of course he did it
but his constructs are all still in the air, in the US environment, for
isolated young men like him to breath in; deadly noxious fumes that can
continue to cause real people to be shot dead.
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