[Tripper]

We don't know if Cho did it for himself, can anyone really say they knew what was going on in the mind of Cho as a young child, or five years ago, or five months ago, or five minutes before the first shooting.
What do you mean by "did it for himself?" Like I said, its the first day since, the pieces of the puzzle are still being put together....They said that stuff about the english paper because its true - Its obviously from the mind of a troubled youth. The fact that most of these same sorts of kids involved with spree killings are engaging in the very same behaviour....and dont tell me you ever wrote a story as fucked up as that, with all the expletives etc and ever handed it in to a teacher. That alone is cause for concern.

Just because he wrote a few very harsh papers symbolizing hatred towards a father figure and a teacher figure doesn't really provide substational evidence to say we know what was going on inside his head.
Thats just it, no-ones claiming they know whats going on in his head - people are trying to figure it out, so they can prevent it from happening again.

I'm might be going out on a limb here, but I'm sure people say such harsh things too in journals/diaries. Should we go report them because their a shady figure and we snooped around their items? Where does the right to privacy come into play.What are you talking about privacy? They were for his english class. You hand it in to get marked and your writing is being assesed by someone - its no longer a private thing. MAYBE I'd understand if it were from his private collection that were only for him - But even then - The guy is dead, who gives a fuck if the paper is released and judged? He's dead. Not only that but he killed 32 people - Its kind of pathetic to even give a fuck about honoring the true soul of a dead spree killer.

I wonder if Cho's family wanted those papers given to the media, or if the school violated his privacy rights and gave them out. Granted this is involving state and federal investigation, does the public really need to see those things word for word? Or are we part of a guinea pig scheme to take and swallow what's given to us without question.
Like I said, who gives a fuck about his privacy. This is not the case to launch your conspiracy theorie about the media from...Try something a little less open and shut.

If he being a nice guy or not is irrelevant, why bother to judge him? Why bother to post his English papers? As you said, he murdered innocent people, that's all we as the general public need to know.
To pick out the obvious symptoms of a potential spree-killer - like that english paper, so that people can try to rationalize with whats happening - and try to make sense of why someone would do something like that. Nobody knows for sure why this is happening, not even the media, thats why they use the paper as a talking point. Everybody just wants answers.