Someone/something has to create killers. No one lives in a bubble. Someone has to create that atmosphere, the views, the hate. It doesn't happen on its own, and we give those people who create that hate a pass.
When mass killings and even genocide happens around the world, we tend to demand that politicians and soldiers be brought to justice. Those directly involved in ordering and perpetrating atrocities. We never think to go after journalist who would stoke fires of hate, who would dehumanize entire groups, and sometimes outright call for killing. We never think to go after all kinds of non-political and non-military public figures who created the hate. I know there's criminal responsibility, but is there no moral responsibility?
I mean, the father of this perpetrator claims he saw two man kissing and it made the dude angry. Ok, clearly, he told you about if you're telling us about it. What did you tell him as a father? Did you tell him there was nothing wrong with being gay? That two men kissing isn't something shocking, it's normal? Did you spend 30 years raising a son by telling him to love everyone and not hate anyone? Did you show him, by words and deeds, that gay people are people just like you and your son? I'd love to ask the father this. I'd love to ask if he feels moral responsibility for this? If other people feel any moral responsibility for creating a culture of hate.
