Procrastic Fantastic

This one is slightly more serious.

Dr Phil,

You have a lot to answer for.

You went on national television a day after a tragedy took place at Virginia Tech and, unjustifiably, diagnosed the gunman. You had no idea what the motivation for his actions were and yet you made assumptions about what led him to commit these atrocities. That in itself is ethically reprehensible. This isn’t your little made-for-tv family arguments. In doing so, you lent yourself to the side of Jack Thompson and the like who shamelessly place the blame for these epically tragic events on the gaming industry, and showed true disregard for less easy-on-the-ears reasons for the killing.

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