- How much more do major networks make/spend (on ads, etc.) during huge tragedies like this one?
- Why does it matter to us more when the people who are killed are from our own country?
- How can tougher gun laws prevent law-abiding citizens from obtaining guns and using them to break the law without banning guns altogether?
- Will tougher gun laws mean fewer guns? Or simply more illegal ones?
- Are atheists more afraid of dying than those who believe in Heaven?
- Is there such a thing as Evil?
- Is Cho Seung-Hui a victim?
- Why do I know how to spell his name without looking?
- How do people grieve?
- What role does blame play?
- Why are so many people pessimistic about “The Future”
- Why do people get mad at others who try to laugh?
- When is it okay to joke about a tragedy?
- Is writing graphic, disturbing, racist, sexist, hateful, profane, obscene, depressive, violent stories an indicator of something? What?
- Can an intelligent, healthy person write such things, or speak with the same anger?
- What does it mean to be mentally ill? Psychotic? Evil?
- Can a sane human being kill?
- How many people can a sane person kill before they’re no longer sane?
- What makes some killing moral and other killing immoral?
- Some killing legal, and some illegal?
- How do you feel about the media showing portions of Cho’s “manifesto?”
- Why do we pretend there is an American race?
- Why does the death penalty bring some people closure?
- Why do we think there is a law or a drug that will solve everything?
- Why do we say “I love you” more often after things like this happen?
- Why do people like Cho fall through the cracks? How do they become invisible?
- How do we reconcile technology and humanity?
- What changes if the murders were premeditated versus a “blind frenzy?”
- Why do young people feel immortal?
- How much do you want to know about him?
- Why isn’t there a single person who would say, “He was my friend.”
- Why can most of us watch the same violent movies and play the same violent videogames, and live in the same warring society without doing this?
- What would you do if this happened at your school, or in your community?
- What would you do if one of your relatives did something like this?
- Why do we imagine we have any answers?
- What of Cho Seung Hui’s written/recorded rants have relevance? Is there truth to what he was fighting against?
- How does it feel to agree with any of the beliefs of a person whose actions repulse you?
- Why are we so thirsty for the next big scandal?
- Why have we forgotten about Don Imus? Kathy Sierra? Darfur? The Fucking War In Iraq? Did we ever actually care about these things?
- What is highest on the heirarchy of awfulness?
- What will you do to ensure this never happens again?
- Better - what are you doing already? Anything?
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Questions I have about “things.” No judgment, just questions.
