Well, my thoughts on the subject are pretty typical for me.
Before I talk about the incident itself, I would point out that despite what many people might think, humans are not inherantly murderous towards each other. What's more we're social animals and most of us have a conscience. This means that when people are wrong about something, on some level, it affects the action they take whether they realize it or not. This is why I think a lot of attempted revenge killings fail, while a person might be wronged or have bad things happen to them, there are two sides to every story, and most realize they aren't entirely correct.
On the incident itself, my reaction is simply that there must be more to this story. While the assailant might be crazy, seven months of planning seems like a lot of effort. Even the insane have motives for what they do, even a total sociopath or borderline personality has to believe they stand to gain from some act in some way... in horror movie fashion that might be from an enjoyment of sadism or whatever, but the conditions do not nessicarly go together.
Given the competitive nature of Counter-Strike I would have to wonder if money, or some kind of prestigious ranking was involved in this match. I'd also wonder if there were accusations of cheating involved. Like many similar actions it seems people are simply reporting that a "video game" was involved and leaving it at that. I don't think society has caught up to understanding all of the ramifications of competitive games, and that in many respects they are no differant than sports, and that includes money being involved, the importance of rankings, and even as we've seen (and spoofed on ENN recently) organized crime efforts to get "cyber athletes" to take dives.... albiet mostly outside of the US.
There has to be more to this than we're seeing, and I'm wondering how deeply the law enforcement officials involved in this investigated the incident. Just because the assailant is saying "I feel mortified, but I did it because I'm crazy" doesn't mean that this is true under the circumstances. I'd be looking at the details of the match played, criminal connections (bookeeping), etc... The Assailant might be concerned that explaining why this happened could get them in more trouble because it would involve "outing" the wrong kind of people..... and frankly, if people don't investigate things from this perspective, things will only get worse.
I guess what I'm saying is that there must be more to this story, that's just my gut feeling. I also think that if after seven months of planning the attack failed despite successfully cutting the victim... well, the would-be killer must have held back for some reason, consciously or not.
Before I talk about the incident itself, I would point out that despite what many people might think, humans are not inherantly murderous towards each other. What's more we're social animals and most of us have a conscience. This means that when people are wrong about something, on some level, it affects the action they take whether they realize it or not. This is why I think a lot of attempted revenge killings fail, while a person might be wronged or have bad things happen to them, there are two sides to every story, and most realize they aren't entirely correct.
On the incident itself, my reaction is simply that there must be more to this story. While the assailant might be crazy, seven months of planning seems like a lot of effort. Even the insane have motives for what they do, even a total sociopath or borderline personality has to believe they stand to gain from some act in some way... in horror movie fashion that might be from an enjoyment of sadism or whatever, but the conditions do not nessicarly go together.
Given the competitive nature of Counter-Strike I would have to wonder if money, or some kind of prestigious ranking was involved in this match. I'd also wonder if there were accusations of cheating involved. Like many similar actions it seems people are simply reporting that a "video game" was involved and leaving it at that. I don't think society has caught up to understanding all of the ramifications of competitive games, and that in many respects they are no differant than sports, and that includes money being involved, the importance of rankings, and even as we've seen (and spoofed on ENN recently) organized crime efforts to get "cyber athletes" to take dives.... albiet mostly outside of the US.
There has to be more to this than we're seeing, and I'm wondering how deeply the law enforcement officials involved in this investigated the incident. Just because the assailant is saying "I feel mortified, but I did it because I'm crazy" doesn't mean that this is true under the circumstances. I'd be looking at the details of the match played, criminal connections (bookeeping), etc... The Assailant might be concerned that explaining why this happened could get them in more trouble because it would involve "outing" the wrong kind of people..... and frankly, if people don't investigate things from this perspective, things will only get worse.
I guess what I'm saying is that there must be more to this story, that's just my gut feeling. I also think that if after seven months of planning the attack failed despite successfully cutting the victim... well, the would-be killer must have held back for some reason, consciously or not.
