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Wow this story is very sad and disturbing.
Maybe I'm just getting older and have a different perspective but it seems like there is a general lack of respect for "life" these days in our culture which is now affecting our children. I know this can be a controversial topic because it relates to abortion and euthanasia but I also see it as a result of being unintentionally desensitized to death by the media. Kids (and adults) see so much death in the news, video games, internet, etc. You add that to being raised by parents that may or may not pass on strong ethics of "right" and "wrong" to their children (lots of ethical relativism in our postmodern culture), throw in some mental illness and you have a recipe for disaster.
I don't know that that was the case in this situation, I'm just trying to brainstorm why 12 year olds would do this and why it's not an isolated incident?
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