Thursday, November 10, 2005

school shooting

I don't understand wanting to kill someone because I disagree with them.

The latest Tennessee school shooting at Campbell County Comprehensive High School only reminds me of that fact. 1400 students, none of whom were injured. Two administrators were injured, and one was killed.

They want to try the 15-year old as an adult. Killing people is bad. That's a general idea that most people will affirm. Maybe this is why there's so much hullabalu over the anti-Semitic poetry of a teenager.

Maybe we should take away the character trait of the month and actually start teaching kids that it's wrong to kill people, that wars are bad. But then someone would have to admit that there was a mistake made, that the International Criminal Court really isn't a bad idea, that on the most basic level, killing people is wrong.

For more info, see www.cnn.com , Education.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The state has no responsibility for teaching children that killing people is wrong? What does the state have responsibility for teaching children, then? That they're descended from rocks?

genderist said...

Oh Had I A Golden Thread
(Pete Seeger)

Oh had I a golden thread
And a needle so fine
I would weave a magic spell
Of rainbow design
Of rainbow design

In it I would weave the courage
Of women giving birth
And in it I would weave the innocence
Of the children of all the earth
Children of all the earth

Won’t you show my brothers and sisters
My rainbow design
’Cause I I would bind up this sorry world
With hand and my heart and mind
Oh hand and heart and mind

Oh had I a golden thread
And a needle so fine
I I would weave a magic spell
Of rainbow design
Of rainbow design
Oh oh oh

genderist said...

Imagine
John Lennon

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...

Imagine there's no countries,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say Im a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.