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i guess, people dont do bad things for no reason or because they want to. thats what people need to understand sometimes.

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I agree with that statement. Everything that people do has a reason or a function. Not that it excuses violence and other hurtful actions. A lot of behavior is harmful to the person who does it and to others, but at the time it must have made sense to the person who did it. If we can remember that, maybe it will help us to understand the world and why people do the things they do just a little bit more. There is no excuse for acting out in violence. I want to make sure that is clear. But we can recognize that it doesn't just happen for no reason at all, whether the reason would make sense to anybody else or not.

How could we help people who would commit violence to understand that even though it makes sense to them right now to do that, there are other ways to get whatever it is that they need, and what they want to do is not the way to go about it?