Mass shootings

[Belsnickel]

(02-19-2018, 02:41 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Young people do not love to get likes, shares, and attention? They are getting celebrity type treatment. By that I mean attention. You don’t have to coerce young people to do things that get them more attention and popularity. You do however need to protect them from that attention. It’s hard enough for child celebs to deal with the attention and now we are expecting children who have no way of dealing with this much attention plus who are dealing with the fact they saw their classmates gunned down.

This is something we should protecting them from, not encouraged to run towards. There are several stages of grief and none of them include burying it under celeb like attention. When the attention goes away these kids will be hurting.

Right now they are experiencing a healthy stage of grief. If you adhere to the Kübler-Ross model, then they are currently going through the second, and maybe third, stage of the process. They are finding an outlet for this. They're going to come down off of it whether or not they spent time in front of a camera. If they can find a productive way to channel this anger, then good for them. It's better than harming themselves or others. It has a potential for a positive impact. If they are not being coerced into doing this then I see it as a positive thing.

I'm not going to throw around bona fides, because this is the internet and everyone's e-penis is whatever they claim it to be. This is just based on my understanding of psychology and my experiences.