The Harder Path

You are the answer. Your greeting, your smile, your gentle human touch is the only thing that can change the world of a desperate classmate who may be contemplating something as horrendous as a school shooting. [More]

Maybe. And I advocate giving everyone the respect of treating them like a human being until such time as they demonstrate they aren't respectable. But I suspect by the time things get to where murderous thoughts are part of the equation, the point of no return has been crossed.

I'm afraid when I think of a school-sanctioned do-gooder program to identify alienated kids and then befriend them, it quickly devolves into a fantasy script for a South Park episode that blows up in everyone's faces.

[Via Roger J]