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<blockquote data-quote="rhart" data-source="post: 2799658" data-attributes="member: 16596"><p>I read an interesting piece that suggested "social currency" was one of the drivers of mass shootings. Basically, this concept is based on the fact that everybody wants to be somebody - wants to be important/famous/notorious, known for being good at something, known as being special in some way, etc. These sadistic murdering cowards (mass shooters) get their social currency (infamy) through enacting heinous scenarios. Take away or diminish their social currency and remove their time-limited safe operating window (GFZs) and they may pursue some other means of gaining this social currency - maybe they will instead videotape their own suicides by some horrific manner instead (and these should be allowed to be posted on you tube so they gain currency from it IMHO). While there is no sure method of preventing these vile acts, it may be possible to reduce them by removing/negating the perceived benefits of perpetrating them especially when combined with hardening currently soft targets. Most of these guys have decided to die when they set out to commit mass murder so eliminating GFZs alone may not have as dramatic an effect unless the social currency is reduced/removed also. Still, if enacted, there will be some who think that if their killings are particularly horrific they will surely be treated differently and thus realize the social currency that drives these crimes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rhart, post: 2799658, member: 16596"] I read an interesting piece that suggested "social currency" was one of the drivers of mass shootings. Basically, this concept is based on the fact that everybody wants to be somebody - wants to be important/famous/notorious, known for being good at something, known as being special in some way, etc. These sadistic murdering cowards (mass shooters) get their social currency (infamy) through enacting heinous scenarios. Take away or diminish their social currency and remove their time-limited safe operating window (GFZs) and they may pursue some other means of gaining this social currency - maybe they will instead videotape their own suicides by some horrific manner instead (and these should be allowed to be posted on you tube so they gain currency from it IMHO). While there is no sure method of preventing these vile acts, it may be possible to reduce them by removing/negating the perceived benefits of perpetrating them especially when combined with hardening currently soft targets. Most of these guys have decided to die when they set out to commit mass murder so eliminating GFZs alone may not have as dramatic an effect unless the social currency is reduced/removed also. Still, if enacted, there will be some who think that if their killings are particularly horrific they will surely be treated differently and thus realize the social currency that drives these crimes. [/QUOTE]
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