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Tayla MarshThis article talks about the different ideas people have of why Dylan and Eric decided to commit the Columbine massacre. They were not outcasts or random students that no one knew, it was quite the opposite. Everyone's conclusions were thrown off due to this because of how unusual it seemed for "popular" kids to do this type of incident. Psychiatrists and psychologists studied the two shooters to get an insight of the real reason for it. They concluded that it was not because of resentment of the students or teachers, but it was based from the idea of being the shooters to kill the most people in history. They wanted to be remembered in history and get the attention for the "work" they did. Eric and Dylan wanted to be the best and commit the best school shooting ever. The article continues to explain the psychological explanation behind the shooters and the process of labeling them as psychopaths.
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Five years ago today, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered their classmates and teachers at Columbine High School. Most Americans have reached one of two wrong conclusions about why they did it. The first conclusion is that the pair of supposed "Trench Coat Mafia outcasts" were taking revenge against the bullies who had made school miserable for them. The second conclusion is that the massacre was inexplicable: We can never understand what drove them to such horrific
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forget the popular narrative about the jocks, Goths, and Trenchcoat Mafia
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School shooters tend to act impulsively
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for a year and dreamed much bigger.
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by attacking a symbol of American life.
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Columbine was intended not primarily as a shooting at all, but as a bombing on a massive scale
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If they hadn't been so bad at wiring the timers, the propane bombs they set in the cafeteria would have wiped out 600 people.
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cars, packed with still more bombs
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climax would be captured on live television
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wasn't just "fame" they were after—Agent Fuselier bristles at that trivializing term—they were gunning for devastating infamy on the historical scale of an Attila the Hun
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create a nightmare
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greatest mass murderers,
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Harris is the challenge. He was sweet-faced and well-spoken
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"nice."
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Harris was cold, calculating, and homicidal.
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Harris was not merely a troubled kid, the psychiatrists say, he was a psychopath.
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"Psychopaths are not disoriented or out of touch with reality, nor do they experience the delusions, hallucinations, or intense subjective distress that characterize most other mental disorders,"
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Their behavior is the result of choice, freely exercised.
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Harris opened his private journal with the sentence, "I hate the f---ing world."
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from Harris' Web site:
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"YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!!? Cuuuuuuuuhntryyyyyyyyyy music!!! . . .
"YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!!? People who say that wrestling is real!! . . .
"YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!!? People who use the same word over and over again! . . . Read a f---in book or two, increase your vo-cab-u-lary f*ck*ng idiots."
"YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!!? STUPID PEOPLE!!! Why must so many people be so stupid!!? . . . YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!!? When people mispronounce words! and they dont even know it to, like acrosT, or eXspreso, pacific (specific), or 2 pAck. learn to speak correctly you morons.
YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!!? STAR WARS FANS!!! GET A FaaaaaaRIGIN LIFE YOU BORING GEEEEEKS!
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Harris' perpetual deceitfulness. "I lie a lot,"
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Harris claimed to lie to protect himself, but that appears to be something of a lie as well.
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lied for pleasure
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arris' response to being punished after being caught breaking into a van
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Both killers feigned regret to obtain an early release, but Harris had relished the opportunity to perform
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his ability to shoot his classmates, then stop to taunt them while they writhed in pain, then finish them off.
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are guided by such a different thought process than non-psychopathic humans, we tend to find their behavior inexplicable.
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None of his victims means anything to the psychopath
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he doesn't grasp what they feel
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like love or hate or fear, because he has never experienced them directly.
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Harris was not a wayward boy who could have been rescued. Harris, they believe, was irretrievable. He was a brilliant killer without a conscience, searching for the most diabolical scheme imaginable
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His death at Columbine may have stopped him from doing something even worse.
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Harris married his deceitfulness with a tot
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psychopaths are rational and aware of what they are doing and why. Their behavior is the result of choice, freely exercised.
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These are the rantings of someone with a messianic-grade superiority complex, out to punish the entire human race for its appalling inferiority.
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How come, if I'm free, I can't deprive a stupid f---ing dumbshit from his possessions if he leaves them sitting in the front seat of his f---ing van out in plain sight and in the middle of f---ing nowhere on a Frif---ingday night. NATURAL SELECTION. F---er should be shot.
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the two killers complemented each other. Cool, calculating Harris calmed down Klebold when he got hot-tempered. At the same time, Klebold's fits of rage served as the stimulation Harris needed.
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Harris, they believe, was irretrievable. He was a brilliant killer without a conscience, searching for the most diabolical scheme imaginable. If he had lived to adulthood and developed his murderous skills for many more years, there is no telling what he could have done. His death at Columbine may have stopped him from doing something even worse.
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But Harris and Klebold planned for a year and dreamed much bigger. The school served as means to a grander end, to terrorize the entire nation by attacking a symbol of American life.
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It wasn't just "fame" they were after—Agent Fuselier bristles at that trivializing term—they were gunning for devastating infamy on the historical scale of an Attila the Hun.
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Fuselier and Ochberg say that if you want to understand "the killers," quit asking what drove them. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were radically different individuals, with vastly different motives and opposite mental conditions. Klebold is easier to comprehend, a more familiar type. He was hotheaded, but depressive and suicidal. He blamed himself for his problems.
Harris is the challenge. He was sweet-faced and well-spoken. Adults, and even some other kids, described him as "nice." But Harris was cold, calculating, and homicidal. "Klebold was hurting inside while Harris wanted to hurt people," Fuselier says. Harris was not merely a troubled kid, the psychiatrists say, he was a psychopath
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And when the media studied Harris, they focused on his hatred—hatred that supposedly led him to revenge.
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What the boy was really expressing was contempt.
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These are the rantings of someone with a messianic-grade superiority complex, out to punish the entire human race for its appalling inferiority. It may look like hate, but "It's more about demeaning other people," says Hare.
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Harris claimed to lie to protect himself, but that appears to be something of a lie as well. He lied for pleasure, Fuselier says. "Duping delight"—psychologist Paul Ekman's term—represents a key characteristic of the psychopathic profile.
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Both killers feigned regret to obtain an early release, but Harris had relished the opportunity to perform. He wrote an ingratiating letter to his victim offering empathy, rather than just apologies. Fuselier remembers that it was packed with statements like Jeez, I understand now how you feel and I understand what this did to you.
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Harris' pattern of grandiosity, glibness, contempt, lack of empathy, and superiority read like the bullet points on Hare's Psychopathy Checklist and convinced Fuselier and the other leading psychiatrists close to the case that Harris was a psychopath.
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Psychopaths follow much stricter behavior patterns than the rest of us because they are unfettered by conscience, living solely for their own aggrandizement. (The difference is so striking that Fuselier trains hostage negotiators to identify psychopaths during a standoff, and immediately reverse tactics if they think they're facing one. It's like flipping a switch between two alternate brain-mechanisms.)
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Ochberg theorizes that the two killers complemented each other. Cool, calculating Harris calmed down Klebold when he got hot-tempered. At the same time, Klebold's fits of rage served as the stimulation Harris needed.
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Harris, they believe, was irretrievable. He was a brilliant killer without a conscience, searching for the most diabolical scheme imaginable. If he had lived to adulthood and developed his murderous skills for many more years, there is no telling what he could have done. His death at Columbine may have stopped him from doing something even worse.
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School shooters tend to act impulsively and attack the targets of their rage: students and faculty. But Harris and Klebold planned for a year and dreamed much bigger. The school served as means to a grander end, to terrorize the entire nation by attacking a symbol of American life. Their slaughter was aimed at students and teachers, but it was not motivated by resentment of them in particular. Students and teachers were just convenient quarry, what Timothy McVeigh described as "collateral damage." The killers, in fact, laughed at petty school shooters. They bragged about dwarfing the carnage of the Oklahoma City bombing and originally scheduled their bloody performance for its anniversary. Klebold boasted on video about inflicting "the most deaths in U.S. history." Columbine was intended not primarily as a shooting at all, but as a bombing on a massive scale. If they hadn't been so bad at wiring the timers, the propane bombs they set in the cafeteria would have wiped out 600 people. After those bombs went off, they planned to gun down fleeing survivors. An explosive third act would follow, when their cars, packed with still more bombs, would rip through still more crowds, presumably of survivors, rescue workers, and reporters. The climax would be captured on live television. It wasn't just "fame" they were after—Agent Fuselier bristles at that trivializing term—they were gunning for devastating infamy on the historical scale of an Attila the Hun. Their vision was to create a nightmare so devastating and apocalyptic that the entire world would shudder at their power.
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