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Kid doesn’t look weird or like a “loner” to me. He looks like someone high and strung out on drugs, hanging out with the local gang. The weirdest thing I found in this article is the mother’s name is “Shauntai” (what kind of spelling is that?); and the name of the dude who took him out is “Kaylub” (what the fuck?).
When I was in high school, there was this guy in my English class who actually did look like a fairly strange kid and was weird (or more of an oddball in general). For most of the year he was delinquent and chronically absent. He just didn’t attend class. At one point for a project, he and I got paired up with each other at random and when speaking to him, he was just a fairly normal dude. Very talkative, had lots of interests and hobbies, but no one ever took the chance to really know him. I asked him once why he never seemed to be here and he replied he was bullied all the time and didn’t like it and the faculty never did anything about it. The teacher I guess confronted him in private about his absences and he gave some reason about “not being healthy;” and her response back was “your health is the least important.”
Years later I heard from a distant peer I had in school that this guy is doing really well for himself, is making it big in his line of work and things really picked up for him. He said that he told him, “Wow, you really underwent a real transformation when I last remembered you around this time…” And he said back to him that, “Nobody understood that I was a fucking school shooter in the making…,” and he was talking about his high school experience. And after I heard all this, I finally started connecting the dots. His delinquency probably saved the lives of his school bullies and likely the teacher for telling him his health wasn’t important. Unbeknownst to her, she probably got lucky and didn’t even have a clue about it.
Was the fact they ultimately survived a net positive for society, though?
I get that "just let them leave" is a very effective solution (and one that we mostly outsourced to illegals and to the Chinese more generally- cheaper than employing indigenous young men, women and bullies favor that solution partially because it does that, total mystery why that would be), but that's not really one that imposes accountability on people who by all rights were themselves [social] criminals, and society suffers from that kind of social criminality remaining unaddressed just as much as it does from young men meting out the punishment for that themselves (arguably it suffers much more from the former, but in a more diffuse way).
It's not something we really have a concept for since "just let them leave" has worked so incredibly well for most of human history; there's an entire book of the Bible about supernatural justice befalling an entire nation that failed to "just let them leave".
How much the better for us would it have been had be been allowed, and had space, to start that transformation at 16 rather than 26?
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