Uvalde - the followup

That still doesn't explain what your claim that "schools are too oppressive, demeaning, and dictatorial" have to do with him shooting up a school (that he wasn't attending).
 
Shiftless2 said:
That still doesn't explain what your claim that "schools are too oppressive, demeaning, and dictatorial" have to do with him shooting up a school (that he wasn't attending).
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I can only guess as to what specifically motivated the school shooting, however, I personally do find schools to be oppressive, demeaning, and dictatorial, so that came to mind.
I know that some who go to schools that I did not attend, have vastly higher incomes that are not necessarily warranted by their level of skill or intelligence.
So there is also that sense of injustice, that might actually be better described as envy?
 
Rigby5 said:
"So there is also that sense of injustice, that might actually be better described as envy?" R5 #302
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jeal·ous (jĕləs)
adj.
1. Fearful or wary of losing one's position or situation to someone else ...
Usage Note: Traditional usage holds that we are jealous when we fear losing something that is important to us and envious when we desire that which someone else has. In this view, one might experience jealousy upon seeing one's spouse flirt with another (because of the fear of losing the spouse), while one might experience envy upon seeing a friend with an attractive date (because of one's desire to have an attractive date of one's own). In common usage, this distinction is not always observed, and jealousy and jealous are often used in situations that involve envy. Our 2015 survey shows that the distinction is alive and well: large majorities of the Usage Panel approved the traditional uses of jealousy (She was jealous when she saw her husband having dinner with another woman) and envy (He was envious of the expensive sports car his neighbor bought), while only a minority accepted the switched uses: 29 percent accepted envious for the suspicious dinner, and 34 percent accepted jealous for the expensive sports car. The last figure does mean, though, that a third of the Panelists accept jealous meaning "envious," and an even larger minority (43 percent) accept it when the entity being coveted is a person rather than an object, as in Never having been popular myself, I'm jealous of your many friends. It is evident from these results that many careful writers prefer to see the distinction between the two words maintained, with jealous being reserved for situations where one fears losing something and envious used for situations where one wants what one does not have.
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Shiftless2 said:
"From 2 years ago" S2 #303
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That story is potentially far more complicated than it superficially appears.
Stockholm Syndrome for obvious example.
None the less, with a minimum of inference, it's a grim reflection on the childhood we provide.
 
sear said:
jeal·ous (jĕləs)
adj.
1. Fearful or wary of losing one's position or situation to someone else ...
Usage Note: Traditional usage holds that we are jealous when we fear losing something that is important to us and envious when we desire that which someone else has. In this view, one might experience jealousy upon seeing one's spouse flirt with another (because of the fear of losing the spouse), while one might experience envy upon seeing a friend with an attractive date (because of one's desire to have an attractive date of one's own). In common usage, this distinction is not always observed, and jealousy and jealous are often used in situations that involve envy. Our 2015 survey shows that the distinction is alive and well: large majorities of the Usage Panel approved the traditional uses of jealousy (She was jealous when she saw her husband having dinner with another woman) and envy (He was envious of the expensive sports car his neighbor bought), while only a minority accepted the switched uses: 29 percent accepted envious for the suspicious dinner, and 34 percent accepted jealous for the expensive sports car. The last figure does mean, though, that a third of the Panelists accept jealous meaning "envious," and an even larger minority (43 percent) accept it when the entity being coveted is a person rather than an object, as in Never having been popular myself, I'm jealous of your many friends. It is evident from these results that many careful writers prefer to see the distinction between the two words maintained, with jealous being reserved for situations where one fears losing something and envious used for situations where one wants what one does not have.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2022 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.



That story is potentially far more complicated than it superficially appears.
Stockholm Syndrome for obvious example.
None the less, with a minimum of inference, it's a grim reflection on the childhood we provide.
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The increase in irrational violence, such as schools shootings, road rage, presidents illegally attacking other countries, etc., make one wonder if we have contaminated the food chain with chemicals that are mentally destabilizing.?
 
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