If you are the star tight end on the team, you will reap your share of love from the community. But, if you are the last guy off the bench, you might not receive much love, and maybe even come to be somewhat rejected.
If you are derided and ridiculed for being smelly, you certainly are going to feel embarrassed and humiliated.
If you seek to date a girl, and she stands up in class and announces she will not go out with you, that is public humiliation.
It should be hard to dismiss such factors, as motives are sought as to why Dimitrios Pagourtzis killed classmates and teachers at his school in Sante Fe, Texas.
What is it we know about a cornered person? When you sting and hurt someone, they often lash back. Hate begats hate.
This does not justify -- at all -- what Dimitrios Pagourtzis did. The terrible loss of life is a horrible thing. But, these things do give us cause to wonder if lack of love, lack of acceptance, was a motive for the mass shooting.
And, if we are looking for solutions, perhaps we should consider that a society strong on love might well have fewer school shootings -- or at least might not have had this one. If we love those such as Dimitrios Pagourtzis -- if we do not shame them, or publicly reject them -- there might be nothing for them to lash back against.
It is the nature of the human to lash back. Take that away, and you take away some of these shootings. We should wonder at ourselves, as a society, and of how in this day and age, we revel in finding fault, in finding flaws and making those we find with them, pay for them. We feel ourselves the doers of good to find and exploit and correct the faults of others, to unmask them for their flaws and put them to shame. Rather than showing love for them, we heap upon them humiliation and rejection.
If we would have less shootings, we should become a more loving society. It would not end all of these shootings, but it would end some.
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