High school fur 'plotted murders' over 'animal cruelty'

With gamers at least, most younger people have played some games and are likely to know people who are heavily into the gamer culture (although less so a decade ago). It helps that such gamer culture is pretty out in the open, in the sense it is easier to notice the more boring and less extreme members. With furries, people don't have much of a reference to actual furries, and probably more likely to hear about it from some other secondary source. Or if they do actually notice and remember a furry they knew in person, there is a good chance it was because of them being obnoxious or otherwise standing-out.

Also, nothing helps communicate your cause better than making people associate it with craziness and irrationality. It makes the job harder for those with a more practical approach and understanding of how to get support for a cause so that things actually get done.

Although, you do realize that this would not be 'Columbine 2', right?
There have been a decent number of school shootings since then, with a few, such as Virginia Tech, showing equal or greater tolls of lives and injuries.
But to even suggest something like that, and your statement of 'maybe next time', shows a callous lack or respect towards those involved in any incident of this sort.

Flayrah reaches many readers that FNN does not. Their mirroring is selective, too, so it wouldn't show up as a duplicate.

Not all FNN content is suitable for Flayrah, but when it is, rewriting and [citing] as above is fine. (Link their sources, too.)

As for the story, it's sad, but furries are people too - sometimes young, angry people.

The thing is, how do we even know that the people this guy labeled as "animal abusers" really were such? There are animal-rights extremists out there who often see "abuse" that isn't there at all. This guy should have confronted the suspected abusers or reported them instead of jumping right to the sick conclusion that they must die.

I, on the other hand, WOULD see people as terrible for plotting murders over something like this. It makes them WORSE than the animal abusers. They are quick to judge death upon others and resort to irrational, poorly thought out actions that can often directly hurt people who weren't even involved. If Nathaniel had succeeded in his plot, everyone who would be forced to witness the shooting would be terrified by the sight and scarred for life. The parents of the targets would be in endless despair that their kids were slaughtered over something that could have been stopped PEACEFULLY. Nathaniel's parents would suffer the most, knowing that their own kid caused such bloodshed and suffering. Abuse can be healed...death can not.

Since he was stopped before he could act, hopefully he will take this chance to redeem himself and learn not to let his anger consume him in such a way.

I'm with you - I've heard some horrible stuff about people abusing and brutally killing animals, and I think the people who committed those actions deserve to have the karma police come and fuck them up royally. I think a school shooting was definitely the wrong way to fix the problem, but I understand the kid's motives. Some of the things I've heard are just so horrific, you can't help but react with outright rage. Syndath has a point in that we do not know to what extent these people were abusing animals, but if these students he was targeting were committing extreme, cruel, and vicious acts like that, I wouldn't be furious at the kid. I'd understand his anger, i'd just be disappointed that he decided to take it this far.

We could have lenghty discussions about when violence is appropriate but on nonlethally stopping something you know is happening, I'm with you.

Proof or it didn't happen.

Get the fuck out, MeepSheep, and stop trolling WikiFur.

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Biology 101 tells me that humans are also animals.

Not only did he stand up for animals, he also took several steps backward from helping animals. Even if he succeeded in his plots, he might have stopped a small handful of people from ever harming other animals again. But how many people have seen this in the news, and see this as a reason to discredit, distance, or otherwise ignore other causes for animals? Stuff like this is short-sighted gains, but a long term loss.

Regardless of one's stance on the morality of such acts, if you are actually want to help the animals, and have the slightest forethought about how to communicate with people and spread a cause, you wouldn't support this. Otherwise you are just a potential impediment to those actually helping animals.

Go back to peta.org.

No. This isn't 4chan. If you want to be Anon all the time and think you can troll well, go back to 4chan and stay away from flayrah. If you don't agree with my opinion, fine. Everyone is entitled to have his own and I have nothing against a good discussion at times, but I am absolutely not moved by mindless insults so no, I won't get out of here. Have a nice day.