From recent news, which you may have missed:
Seung-Hui Cho, the student who killed 32 people and then himself yesterday, left a long and "disturbing" note in his dorm room at Virginia Tech, say law enforcement sources.
As we all know, society in the United States puts little emphasis on qualities such as common sense. We are more concerned with living lives free of disturbances and filled with unhealthy foods and self-indulgence. And so we come to today’s headline story, which is:
An 18-year-old high school student faces disorderly conduct charges for writing an essay that authorities described as violent and disturbing.
Allen Lee, a senior at Cary-Grove High School, was arrested near his northern Illinois home after penning the in-class writing assignment Monday. The assignment had been to use poetic conventions to express ideas and emotions.
The moral of this story is that doing your homework may get you into trouble with the law. Also, kids, never ever be honest with authorities about anything. They will always overreact.
I’d love to interview the kid and post his essay here.
Ten to one odds say that other than writing something "disturbing" he is emotionally healthy, hangs out with people, has no stalking cases, hasn’t been admitted to a mental institution, and is otherwise fairly normal, unlike Cho, who was classically disturbed and actually dangerous.
I eagerly await a time when intelligent thought and discretion rather than emotionalism and overreaction prevail in the land of the dumb and the home of the reactionary.
Hat tip: Q&O