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<blockquote data-quote="RockHopper" data-source="post: 3779935" data-attributes="member: 49099">Pain is the reason for these events. More pain is the end result.&nbsp; If you want to have an effect on stopping this kind of thing, start in your own social circle, and reach out to those you know in need. Feeling social connections is paramount to emotional health in modern society. As individuals (especially immature individuals) lose faith in an ability to connect with others, their ability to empathize with others fails. Lack of empathy leads to depression, and depression leads to bitterness.It&#039;s a soul-sucking centrifuge of self-loathing that too frequently leads to bitter resentment.I don&#039;t have any ultimate answers to what we should all do about this, but I do know that the &quot;body politic&quot; is not going to be able to come up with a solution. The solution isn&#039;t in laws.....the solution is in personal connections, and the effort that we put into them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RockHopper, post: 3779935, member: 49099"] Pain is the reason for these events. More pain is the end result. If you want to have an effect on stopping this kind of thing, start in your own social circle, and reach out to those you know in need. Feeling social connections is paramount to emotional health in modern society. As individuals (especially immature individuals) lose faith in an ability to connect with others, their ability to empathize with others fails. Lack of empathy leads to depression, and depression leads to bitterness. It's a soul-sucking centrifuge of self-loathing that too frequently leads to bitter resentment. I don't have any ultimate answers to what we should all do about this, but I do know that the "body politic" is not going to be able to come up with a solution. The solution isn't in laws.....the solution is in personal connections, and the effort that we put into them. [/QUOTE]

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