Steve Jobs talked about the internet as a bicycle, making man the most efficient organism on the planet. Unfortunately, everyone has access to that technology. So when it comes to acts like this there is a universal Roger Bannister effect that we will never be able to reverse. Some use their bicycle to do good, some to do unspeakable evil. We are all exposed to external stimulus far exceeding anything throughout human history. At the blink of an eye or the snap of a finger this kid could look up how to make pipe bombs, read diaries of school shooters and pull up media depicting school shooters as empathetic, heroic, idealistic or whatever or even play the Doom Levels created by one of the columbine shooters.

Home life is critical to mitigating these kinds of things, but it will never be eliminated. Why? Because human beings have an irrevocable pull to dehumanize and harm. No matter how well prepared we are, we will all be exposed to rejection, humiliation, failure and any number of negative externalities that can give cause to anger rage hatred and the like.

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