Friends reel from shooting of teen lesbian couple in Texas

[natina]

Friends and family of two teenage girls in a same-sex relationship who were shot in the head in a South Texas park expressed shock and grief Tuesday over the incident in which one of the young women was killed and the other severely injured

Mollie Judith Olgin, 19, and Mary Kristene Chapa, 18, were found in knee-deep grass in a nature area in Portland by a couple Saturday morning, said Portland Police Chief Randy Wright, who confirmed to msnbc.com details first reported by the Corpus Christi Caller Times (http://www.caller.com/news/2012/jun/23/homicide-investigation-portland-two-women-shot-one/)


http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/26/12419818-friends-reel-from-shooting-of-teen-lesbian-couple-in-texas?lite/


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[Baileyluv]

really losing faith in humanity

[Ben]

really losing faith in humanity

There are 7 billion of us. I believe the vast majority of people are moral and decent.
You can't humanize people. Because people are already human. But you can certainly dehumanize them. That's a cultural and societal fault, as it were.
I think, too, institutions are much worse than actual people. Whether it be government or corporate. I mean, how many millions of people have governments killed in, say, the last 100 years? Think WWI and WWII. The Korean War. Vietnam. Iraq. Our brutal assault on Central America in the 80s. The point being, again, that institutions are far worse than individual people.
I don't know why people become bad, as it were. Is it a reflection of the society? Is the culture simply moronic and diseased, as it were? Is our world getting worse (and more stressed out) because of, say, technology? Do things like the iPhone make us happier or add more stressors to our lives?
One of the leading British scientists Martin Rees said that he thought our chances of surviving by the end of this century were 50-50.
The Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg likened us to a virus. And what's the purpose of a virus? To destroy its host.

[Ben]

Martin Rees - Learning to Survive - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HALODOZPhl0)