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I think "missing the point" is the point for some people. Easier to do than face up to harsh reality or topics of conversation that get you booted put of your dinner party circuit (e.g. Noakes, whose gratuitous narcissism and desperation to create relevance for herself while skirting the real problems makes me sick) .

It may also provide comfort to imagine (e.g. in Brianna's mother's case) that this sort of pointless violence could be prevented with a technical tweak. Too horrifying to comprehend that murderers like that really do exist, even at a young age.

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I think that looking for a point when there is no point creates no end of problems.

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I would add a second like if I could for your parenthesis about Noakes!

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An interesting piece. Thank you. However you suggest ‘As always these questions can’t be easily answered.’ I’ve read the preceding questions three times. And yes, yes they can.

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