I have 0 sympathy for Elliot Rodgers

er....who are you to suggest who warrants empathy and who doesn't?

he had Asperger's. QUOTE] I think that they invented it afterwards, to make him more of a victim and less of a psycho. But even if he was, how does it justify what he did? There are many people with Asperges out there, poor, without any teams and Mercedeses, and they don't kill anyone, and they don't require some "team" to manage their lives, especially at 22.

I have sympathy for Elliot Rodgers only because of the emotional pain he felt, but not because of his act of terror.

Involuntary celibacy causes a lot of emotional pressure, and people with Asperger's syndrome (such as myself) find it incredibly difficult to deal with emotional understanding of other people, let alone feeling lonely. This incident also reinforces the negativity that the idealistic interpretation of the typical "alpha male" or "hot girl", that seems so prevalent in today's society, has introduced. I was also bullied a fair bit in school and that knocked my self-confidence a lot.

Unfortunately, it wasn't articulated very well, as it did come across a tad homophobic.

Never mind.

In fairness, from what I hear (admittedly this is rather shaky and anecdotal), they refuted his statements and called him out on his racism.

A lot of people have simple answers to this and say he could have done this or that but what many people don't realize is people who do such things have been enduring a lot of pain for a long time to the point where they start to justify taking people's lives as revenge. I mean this kid got bullied countlessly at university and the fact he had aspegers probably made him feel even worse than he already was and hence exposed him to high levels of anxiety. It's really unfortunate something like this happened.

It's difficult to say whether or not you would have done this if you were in the exact same position and endured the same pain, everybody has different reactions however deciding to take someone's innocent life was not right indeed.

Exactly WHY do you have sympathy for most serial killers? You do know that's the kind of thing a serial killer might say.

A rabid dog has not control over it's actions but I would still have not qualms about shooting it in the head with no sympathy whatsoever.

From what I've seen on Misc, his attitudes towards women and masculinity are pretty similar to everyone else's on there.

What did he exactly do in his life? Besides driving an expensive car? Did he work? If not, ''For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.''

I don't think that statement is entirely true. I spent a lot of time not working and just living in my room, and I never went too crazy. But then I have a lot interests and read a lot.

Just out of curiosity: who supported you then? Do you have rich parents?

No, my parent's are not well off. I spent just under a year living at home with them. I sometimes helped them out with their business. I never had any money, but it wasn't that bad.

Did they say something about it? Like, "when will you get a job/move out, for how long", stuff like this?

I would still know right from wrong regardless of what kind of bad start I had in life.

If you feel no sympathy for a sick animal while shooting it in the head, then I would think that you probably have mental/psychopathic problems yourself, to be honest. That's ****ed up.