This world is afraid

People usually only have moments of where they think something is “crazy” but won’t speak out on it. In the world we live in, life has now become faster, more pressured and overall chaotic. We have become a society of finding a more complicated reason or shifting blame and not taking responsibility.
In the city I currently reside in there recently have been murders left and right. What possesses a person to think they can perform these bizarre and evil acts? We have had people kill each other for all sorts of reasons many are unexplained, yet still there is a search to place blame. My thought is what a person can’t be decided as just “evil/crazy”? Must we always have some long drawn out explanation that eventually puts the blame on someone else? The person who committed the act made a choice, regardless of the history, they still made their choice. 
Another multi-murder was said to be a lovers quarrel...so they decided that the only way it could be settled was to kill each other.... hmmm something hear screams that both parties were not playing with a full deck. However though neither of them are placing blame on the other. (Smirk)

On a national level, what leads a person to do what was done at Virginia Tech. (My heart still goes out to all of you at VT) Is it the way this kid was treated, was it video and T.V. violence, family life or something more. Everyone wants a reason why someone acts in this way so they can put their hate, guilt and heartache on. Put it on that person! Not something in their past. This society should try harder to hold people to their actions. Think about when people are drunk, they make some mistake and they expect that the excuse "I was drunk" or " I don’t remember much of the night" will qualify as an answer. Please!!! Those responses are cop-outs!
Our society has let a passing excuse alleviate people from having to own up to his or her actions, letting someone or something else be the cause for blame. This then allows people to get a learned behavior of that they can get away with horrid crimes and go unpunished because it was really the person’s parents or people around them who are the ones at fault. 
Whilst these things are factors of our decisions we still make a choice.
When making a choice be ready to stand on your convictions or be ready to see another point of view, but don’t be wishy-washy. If a person doesn’t stand for anything because they don’t want to make waves or are not held to their convictions then what are they...empty? Who are they!? It is said that actions speak louder than words. Which most believe to be true and if people were held accountable for their actions and responses then they would change their attitudes and actually use that mushy thing between their ears and think about how they convey themselves to the world. Those who say that they care not for what the public thinks of them, need to realize while yes this makes you independent and original, the world will still pass judgment and those judgments will affect your life even when you think it won’t. It is our actions verbal and nonverbal that define us. 

This world has become so afraid of stepping on toes or offending someone that people no longer stand for what they believe in. Compromise is all good and well but what about being an individual? What are we all to become mindless amoebas? 

Think about your actions, you do affect someone else’s choice in some small degree. Will you be responsible for their actions no! Not unless you’re a puppet master and if so let me know how you do it- it will help me patent the concept of world domination (insert sarcasm here). The next time we see something that challenges our integrity, we need to speak up! You see someone who maybe needs a compliment to lift his or her day, offer one. Lets make the day to day more enjoyable for people. Also hold people to their actions if they are held to them it will cause them to think twice when acting. To many mistakes are made over and over because people don’t think before they act or do not hold strong to those convictions. Let’s quit that, huh?