From: Harvey Newstrom (newstrom@newstaffinc.com)
Date: Mon Jun 07 1999 - 11:53:23 MDT
> Anyone half trained in logic can see that:
> Our human race learning to deal with it's own anger and rage could have
saved
> more lives than banning guns. The Emotional IQ of people who shoot each
other
> is far more intersting to me than how many of them do it, or which ones
were
> "right". Emotions here on the list in fact are of great interest to me.
The
> anger and aggresion mounts daily!
Try to keep the gun debate in those topics labelled such, or change the
subject line when it shifts to guns.
> I read news reports that "Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold passed an anger
> management course with glowing comments from their teachers".
This is true. It is extremely trivial and commonplace for criminals to
exhibit the proper "reformed" behavior when required. Harris and Klebold
were required to go through anger management courses as part of their
probation on previous offenses. They passed with flying colors. They may
have even been sincerely good at manging their anger, in class. Most people
fail to grasp the concept that criminals are not stupid or aggressive all
the time. Most are productive, normal members of society, with lots of
additional problems. Most people would not conceive that reform can be
faked, because they underestimate the cunning of the average criminal.
Underestimating the enemy/subgroup/whatever is the number one reason that
social programs or social theories fail. They fail to truly predict or
understand the people about which the theories are made. Instead, theories
are based on someone's own ideals of what reality is or should be, but have
little real basis in reality.
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