Cult of the asshole

Apparently, being a jerk has evolved into a sport. I saw something on the news, about something called "bum fun". While that may sound like an enjoyable passtime, if you are so inclined, it has nothing to do with anal sex. It is about mocking homeless people on camera, making them do stunts, fight, or even just filming them while they are in pain, occasionally for cash, but the monetary exchange is not the issue here. It is humiliating poor people in front of an audience, a practice that we were supposed to have grown out of in 1788.

It is a minor thing, in what I call, the cult of the asshole. Some bizarre subgroup of jerks, asswipe, pricks and other assorted idiots, who worships the highest order of asshole. It is a theory that I first conceived of, a few weeks back, after that finnish guy shot up his school. I never bothered to look at his youtube account, because that would be bowing to his demands, to be noticed, and indirectly give meaning to what he did, but anyway, I read somewhere that people was acting as if he was a hero.

I have news to those people. Taking guns and shooting at unarmed people, that has absolutely nothing to do with heroism. It is not in the same ballpark, it is not in the same league, it is not in the same city, it is not even the same game. If we imagine that being a hero is, say, tennis, shooting innocent, unarmed people would be... wearing steeltipped boots and stomping on kittens tied down. Hey, if hunting is a sport, why not kitten-stomping.

I read about a small girl who saved her entire family from a fire. She is a hero. The guy, in New York, who saved another guy from getting hit by a train by holding him down under the train? Hero, right there. Then there are the career heroes, cops, firefighters, ambulance drivers, doctors, nurses, and the likes, whose entire jobdescription goes "Save people and/or property".
Harris and Klebold killed 12 people and wounded 23 others. Do you see the difference? Goddamn right. They are the villains of the story. The finnish guy was a villain, the Virginia Tech guy was a villain. They are not to be looked up to. They are not to be glorified. They are to be looked down upon, while standing next to Hitler, Pol Pot and others like them, while history brands them as the murdering assholes that they were.

We had an incident in Denmark, a month or two ago, where a 15 year old killed a man, then actually pulled him over to the streetlights, so he got a better light, filming it on his cellphone. Then he sent it to his friends. He was caught within a day, no thanks to the friends, who refused to talk to the police, despite having known who did it, since shortly after he did it.

Which brings me directly to Happy Slapping. People filming themselves, physically hurting another human being. It does not get much more despicable than that.

So, in conclusion: Assholes? Fuck you. Fuck you and your friends. I wish you nothing but bad things in life, and if I am not hoping what you have done will happen to you, it is solely because I do not want it to happen ever again, people being hurt for a cheap laugh or a school being shot to pieces by an insane jerk. So, fuck off, and never have children, because the last thing that this world needs, is more people like you.

Shit, I am too angry to continue writing this. I will just post the first draft, change it if I feel like it.