Tag: violence
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How Prolonged Role-Playing and Social Contagion Enabled the Columbine Tragedy—and Why No One Intervened
Abstract The 1999 Columbine High School massacre, perpetrated by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, remains a stark reminder of how untreated psychological vulnerabilities, combined with immersive violent fantasies, can culminate in catastrophe. This paper theorizes that the shooters’ years of role-playing murders—through journals, videos, and video games—desensitized them to violence, blurring the lines between fantasy…
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