So someone is trying to convince me sympathize with school shooters... Why? Just why? Why should I feel bad for people who choose to kill others?

"They were bullied and felt like they had to resort to this. Why don't you feel sorry for them? They are just as much of victims as the people they killed." Um I was bullied severely in school and the thought of murdering people over it never once crossed my mind. A lot of people are bullied but they don't shoot up their school over it because if they did then there would be multiple mass shootings everyday in every single school in America. No one has to resort to killing people. It's a choice they make and I'm not going to feel bad for their horrible decision to murder people just because they may or may not be having a tough time in life. Nope. Not going to do it. Victimizing them takes away from the real victims of the crime committed.

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Miram · 31-35, F

I can feel bad for them being bullied in high school, or sexually abused at some point and it doesn't have to be related to their choice to hurt others. The sympathy is for the abuse they suffered not for the way they chose to handle it. The later is something no true compassionate person would have interest in.

NaturallyPeculiar · 26-30, F

@Miram I don't mean you can't be sympathetic to the bullying or someone going through abuse, but some people try to make it sound like these people are the true victims and they had no other choice and that's where my sympathy disappears. There is always a choice. Like in particular the person I was talking to was talking about the Columbine massacre and was saying that the two perpetrators were the real victims and that those killed deserved it because they caused the suffering of the perpetrators and keeps trying to get me to feel bad for them. I can't do it.

Miram · 31-35, F

@NaturallyPeculiar You don't have to do it. It will not change what happened.