Question

Personality is shaped by the combined forces of biological, situational, and mental processes all embedded in a sociocultural and developmental context. Sue Klebold is the mother of Dylan Klebold, one of the two shooters who committed the Columbine High School massacre, murdering 12 students and a teacher. She's spent years excavating every detail of her family life, trying to understand what she could have done to prevent her son's violence. In this difficult, jarring talk, Klebold explores the intersection between mental health and violence, advocating for parents and professionals to continue to examine the link between suicidal and homicidal thinking. Click on the link. What are your perspectives on the video? What do you think about suicidal and homicidal thinking?

https://www.ted.com/talks/sue_klebold_my_son_was_a_columbine_shooter_this_is_my_story?utm_ campaign=tedspread--a&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

Answer 1

This video is really great, hats off to Sue Klebold. It is indeed a painful experience. Usually due to unsafe environment which is there outside, the girls or the daughters in the family are cross questioned, they are being asked about where they are going, what they are doing etc? But freedom is given to sons or boys and they are not questioned. Such tendency leads to develop massive crimes in the society. Dylan was in depression, he had some revenge thoughts, which even his mother didn't knew. This is actually very sad part of any American society, where children are being exposed to multiple things right at the school age, whereas the Indian culture would never permit that. It is mostly culture in India, that everybody has their dinner together, the children do not sepArate fro their parents at the age of 18, they do not do any vacation job. The concept of pocket money is not that popular as it is there in USA. Mental peace, respect to elders, not crossing the limits are very important, valuable things which any Indian culture would tell. These factors are out of too much pressure or too much unacceptable things which are not confided to any body except for similar mindset person. Too much of freedom is being in American culture as a result the students go into depression or commit suicides.