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Originally Posted by masque de Z
The problem with Ted or other terrorists is that they themselves are playing a losing game. You cannot hurt random people that are innocent and even those you think are guilty require better more effective approaches.
He got lots of people to read his manifesto who otherwise wouldn't have. For him that may have been worth the small sacrifice in lives which had a net negative impact on society anyway, from his POV, and whom served as symbolic victims.
He lashed out on environmental issues, but I have a theory that's just what happened to crystallize his anger, and if it wasn't that, it would have been something else. He had a lot of anger toward the math department at Michigan for how it was run and how it treated students. He was different from other grad students in his obsessive thirst for mathematical truth. Ted thought that he was smarter than everyone around him, certainly those in charge. And he was really smart. Look at his PhD thesis. But when you think you're smarter than every one, and you're obsessive and driven, and you're a loner, then you have no one to give you feedback. So your hatred builds until you become convinced that you're justified in doing things that a normal person would never seriously consider.
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Hurting a dog or sending a nasty latter ultimately escalates things for the worse. So i understand your frustration and drive to find a smart way more as an exercise in fun thinking rather than an actual attempt for violence.
I have no interest in hurting dogs, like serial killers who torture animals. I just want them to disappear off the face of the earth. If one were really annoying me over a period of time, and I knew I could make that happen without being caught, I would do it and feel justified. And they all know how I feel about them. They can smell my hatred. Even mild mannered dogs go crazy around me, and their owners tell me "he NEVER behaved that way before, WTF?". And they search to see what I might have on me. But it's not what's on me. It's what's in me.
Kitties are just the opposite. I visited my friend's family and see this white 3-legged cat across the yard. I get down to summon it over, and they say "no no, he doesn't come near people, he's crazy feral", and as soon as they say this, the cat runs, not walks, runs across the yard to me, sniffs my hand, and lets me pet it. The people were dumbfounded. "WTF? He hasn't done that for years. You should be an animal trainer." Actually I probably just did something that he remembered he liked at one time. You can connect with them though. By your movements, returning their blinks, etc. And if you do that to a cat who was once loved, but people have given up on for a long time, and no one shows it affection, just imagine how a human would react in that situation, and the cat's actions are understandable.
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I am actually more amused at thinking when the dog barks, to have a sound system that "barks" 20 times louder using all kinds of animal sounds rapidly including Lion sounds and Elephants lol or screams (in your own altered voice) in the middle of the night to the neighbors; "fix your %$%#ing dog you sociopathic uncaring losers". Imagine that loud scream and then followed by all the animal sounds on huge sound intensity for a few seconds every time the dog barks without a purpose for say 5-6 times . It would be hilarious!!!
LOL.
Yeah, I've thought that you have to fight fire with fire. If they can be inconsiderate, then so can I, and that's a war I think I can win. Like Rambo, "You want war, I'll givya war you won't believe."