Comments on: Let’s form a big circle of forgiveness for Seung Hui Cho

By: Gerardo

Gerardo — Wed, 02 May 2007 23:08:04 +0000

Joseph Samaha, father of Reema, sent out his prayers to Cho Seung-Hui’s family because “they too lost a son”, according to an article in the Washington Post. Maybe he knows something the rest of us don’t.

What if there are no victims? What if this world is really an illusion created by God and that everyone and everything (including Cho) is Him/Her. God is playing every single character in order to experience His light. In the absence of Fear and Hate, Godself cannot be given the opportunity to express his light. Maybe it is a blessing and an opportunity for us to come from our lightness and not darkness. This doesn’t make sense. You can read Conversations With God by Neile Donald Walsh if you are interested in these kinds of thoughts.

By: Jamie Lockridge

Jamie Lockridge — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:26:19 +0000

I want to start out by letting the families know I am deeply sorry for your loss. I heard there were signs of this “MORONS” behavior why wasn’t he stopped? I heard he did this because he was picked on alot of people are picked on but they don’t kill innocent people. I also found out Seung-Hui Cho video,letter and other items are being sold through the internet. I hope I meet that person who is selling these Items for he will know the true meaning of pain and feel the pain as those who lost their lives so do the right thing Stop!!!!!!!! selling these Items don’t be a “MORON” have “RESPECT” for the families.

By: anonymoo

anonymoo — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:13:02 +0000

what i find interesting is the reaction to all this. after 9/11, anybody that looked like an arab was hated, or just looked at differently. and now an asian male, specifically korean, has done something so drastic that it’s focusing the public’s attention on this now prominent minority. i wonder if the same thing is happening again. the public’s attention is “focused” so much that they don’t have clue about the larger picture. or to put it another way, leaves on the trees are being mistaken for the forest. the media has a huge hand in this, because they seem to be almost enjoying covering their big story, so the current and even past generations are being so bombarded with the cheesy self portraits of Cho and the video he made, and they think, “That idiot = all koreans, or asians.” so i wonder, if sometime this week or next month, two gunmen walk into a grocery store in new york city, shoot a few customers and the cashiers, take the money and run, get caught and are discovered to be a white male and black male, what will the reaction be? “Happens all the time”? Has murder in this country become so normative that it’s only when someone from a minority ethnic group kills numerous amounts of people in one day that it is something to stir the nation’s utterly skewed sense of justice, in this context, in the form of its everpresent, and forever will be, racial prejudice?

By: jackboots

jackboots — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:49:25 +0000

Commenters are asked to refrain from personal attacks, insults, or profane language. Re: Comment from Hudson

The purpose of ‘forgiving’ by the surviving victims is to heal the surviving victims…

By: A reader

A reader — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:24:08 +0000

Bravo. That’s probably the thinking that was going through Cho’s head.

By: Hudson

Hudson — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:00:17 +0000

Screw you. Cho was a waste of a human life and never deserved to be on this earth.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:54:47 +0000

300,000,000 people in the USA. This kind of thing will happen once in awhile. Brain and psychology issues are not terribly well understood, despite what some of the people in the psychology/psychiatric fields claim. Sure, the issues with on-on-one tutoring, the bizarre stories, the stalking, etc. are serious. Maybe Cho could have been successfully treated. Maybe those events should have been enough to prevent the gun purchases. Still, that might only buy time…for example consider for the Bath Massacre of 1927. A determined killer will find a way. Recent examples are Oklahoma City and 9/11, neither of which involved guns. How does a human being become so desperately alone and psychotic in a crowd of 26,000 students? Perhaps there is too much too much focus on competition and winning rather than teamwork and brotherhood/sisterhood in the USA. Maybe one day the psych pros will be able to determine if these actions are the result of a congenital miswiring of the brain or are learned behaviors. Some say an individual’s propensity for such actions are encoded by the age of seven…before Cho came to the USA. Certainly the psych pros will improve detection and treatment in the coming years. For the time being, when these things happen, there will be many questions and opinions, and decades of grief for many people to work through…including the people who cared about Cho.

By: A reader

A reader — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:37:29 +0000

It’s natural to search for reasons after such horrific events. I don’t think anyone, including the Post, is looking to excuse or pity this murderer. But arguing and judging other people’s reactions doesn’t really get you anywhere. It usually ends up breeding more anger, hate and division. We all process things of this sort on our own terms in an attempt to make some emotional sense of it all. The truth is, though, only time gives us the ability to put it in perspective and let it go. For the friends and families of the victims, I wonder if time can even help. I hope they are able to find some kind of peace as they try to carry on. In the end, I’m not sure it really matters what newspapers, magazines and TV say about these things…they’re just trying to sell newspapers, magazines and TV. Try to find your own way to deal with it and let others do the same.

By: Mr. Noah

Mr. Noah — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:16:38 +0000

OK, well, go ahead and revile Cho. Fat lot of good it’ll do you, he’s dead. If sitting there thinking about how evil a dead guy is lets you feel better, by all means, sit around and fantasize about what you’d have done if only you’d have been able to get your hands on the bugger’s neck. But a lot of people feel better when they let go of their hate and forgive.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:14:17 +0000

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:50:52 +0000

Seems to me that understanding the people who commit such atrocities as Seung Hui did Monday may help us prevent such tragedies in the future. Are you honestly saying that you would rather nothing had been different about his life? Asking ourselves what we could do differently is the only way to proceed. I don’t see how your political attack on the Post’s exploration of this important but obviously sensitive matter helps anyone.

By: mateo

mateo — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:32:13 +0000

- in his rant, he said he “could have” fled, as he put it. well, that’s the kicker. it’s the same with any of these school massacre culprits: they CAN find a highway, and leave. move on. forget the place where they’ve been bullied and humiliated. try to incorporate lessons from the place, and from the “crowd,” and utilize those lessons in the next place.
but by the same token, in America, bullying is fashionable, cool. it is a nation of rivals and few friends, and every weakness is fleshed out. this ought NOT to be, and the reason it exists as a social phenomenon, is because there’s no “government” to speak of. the United States is basically Mad Max-World in a box. we NEED leaders who will have and USE authority, and not a bunch of chicken shits who say and do ANYTHING to win their seats just so they can KEEP their seats of authority from more “active” - COURAGEOUS - leaders…