opinions influenced by the media?

[jaguar]

I think that's what ultimately separates the sane people from the insane ones. We realize that life is full of tasty sandwiches. They only see the empty wrappers.

The next plato no doubt

I submitted a 3-page reply explaining that current psychoanalyis doesn't think that you could turn into a _planning_ (serial) killer, like the Columbine ones, without being afflicted by _specific_ extroverted violent psychopathic derangements.

The quesiton then becmoes the cause for thsoe disorders - i'd argue when you cna, and often do have a genetic disposition to suffering from a serious mental disorder (a murky and relatively new science in itslef - genetics and mental states, not to mention definion and diagnosing metal disorders well, thats why we have huge broad things like schizophrenia) I'd say it can be easily brought on by what rusotto is talking about.