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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure it's "severe denial" to fail to have contemplated that your child might shoot up a school. Especially in 1999, when it wasn't nearly so common as it is now. Acknowledging that your child is very troubled, sure, but mass murder is quite a few steps beyond that.

My heart breaks for the Klebolds. And I know there has been less sympathy for Eric Harris' parents because they haven't been open with their apologies and grief like the Klebolds, but I almost feel even worse for them because unlike Dylan's severe depression, I'm really not sure what they could have done for Eric. He was a psychopath and a narcissist and unfortunately mental health treatment does not really have anything in the arsenal to deal effectively with those conditions aside from advising those close to the person to run away so they don't get hurt. Psychopathy is largely an accident of genetics, and researchers have found that therapy and treatment just make it worse because it trains the person to better manipulate and lie in order to trick the therapist, which it appears happened with Eric. Psychopaths are very good at charming and pulling the wool over people's eyes--it's part of the disorder, and I can't blame Eric's parents for falling for it. He was going to do something truly horrible eventually and I don't think they could have done anything except postpone it a bit. He was almost an adult, almost out of their house, and this isn't the movie "Minority Report" where we can lock up budding criminals before they've actually committed the act.[/quote]

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