Detachment, Isolation, Dehumanization, and Emotional Estrangement from Human Relationships<\/p>\n
A recently released phone video<\/a> shot by 19-year-old\u00a0Parkland, Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz, reveals a cold, callus young man who claims to \u201chate everyone and everything.\u201d<\/p>\n Los Angeles Times<\/em> reporter, Melissa Healy<\/a>, compares<\/a> Nikolas Cruz to Sandy Hook school shooter, Adam Lanza, and sees a commonality in isolation and \u201ca profound sense of alienation from virtually all human relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n The anonymous web on which we play and interact is clearly a double-edged sword. Healy notes:<\/p>\n Most adolescents and young adults come to recognize there\u2019s a fundamental difference between going online and actually having a close personal relationship. But for kids who are not fitting in, that\u2019s a very attractive alternative: You can hide or disguise who you are and what you\u2019re thinking.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Many young shooters, however, have attributed motivation to wanting to be \u201cknown\u201d indicating feelings of being unheard, invisible, insignificant.<\/p>\n The need to \u201cbelong\u201d to be part of a \u201cfamily\u201d or something bigger than oneself has been reported to be at the root of adolescents joining gangs, cults, and being recruited by foreign terrorists. \u00a0While not joining, others feel in sync with terrorist\u2019s ideologies, identifying with the intense anger but striking out as lone actors.<\/p>\n Another noted commonality of school shooters and mass murderers<\/a> is fatherlessness by various…<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n