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Originally Posted by Jel
serious question - how is it romanticizing, or glamorizing?
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Originally Posted by PR_Tom
I'll take a real shot at this one. People think he's handsome, cute, or pretty. They have a hard time associating a heinous action with a pretty face. That's my honest guess. They think he looks cool.
I seem to recall that there were those in the media and government who thought that Suicide Solution was a blight on society too. That it was spurning kids to commit suicide. Ridiculous then, ridiculous now. Just don't buy it. Donate to the victims directly if you feel that it's the thing to do.
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i'll take a shot at it too, at least this is my view.
the story was too weak. it not only didn't support being a *cover* story, it didn't support a cover that was created to spark controversy.
the story headline on the cover was along the lines of let's look into the life of this kid and see what's behind the bomber's actions but the story truly failed to answer that question or even pose a hypothesis. the story in fact made the guy out to be a lady killer, unsubstantiated, and "brainwashed" by his brother, again, based on a friend of the bomber's view of the bomber, so the story does romanticize that guy.
pr tom's view is prolly the one closer to how most are about it though.